Histories

Presently, when the Persians had come and had crossed the +Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by the river Marsyas. The Carians fought obstinately and for a long time, but at the last they were overcome by the odds. Of the Persians, as many as two thousand men fell, and of the Carians ten thousand.

Those of them who escaped were driven into the precinct of Zeus of Armies at +Labraunda [27.8167,37.4167] (Perseus) Labraunda,[*](Site of the cult of a war-god, whose emblem was the la/brus or battle-axe.) a large and a holy grove of plane-trees. (The Carians are the only people whom we know who offer sacrifices to Zeus by this name.) When they had been driven there, they deliberated how best to save themselves, whether it would be better for them to surrender to the Persians or to depart from Asia (continent)Asia.

While they took counsel, the Milesians and their allies came to their aid, whereupon the Carians put aside their former plans, and prepared to wage a new war over again. They met the Persian attack and suffered a heavier defeat in the battle than the first; many of their whole army fell, but the Milesians were hardest stricken.

The Carians, however, rallied and fought again after this disaster, for learning that the Persians had set forth to march against their cities, they beset the road with an ambush at Pedasus. The Persians fell into this by night and perished, they and their generals, Daurises and Amorges and Sisimaces. With these fell also Myrsus, son of Gyges. The leader of this ambush was Heraclides of Mylasas, son of Ibanollis.

This, then, is how these Persians perished. Hymaees, who had been one of those who went in pursuit of the Ionians who marched on Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis, now turned towards the Propontis, and there took Cius in +Mysia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Mysia.

When he had taken this place and heard that Daurises had left the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and was marching towards +Caria [28,37.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Caria, he left the Propontis and led his army to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, making himself master of all the Aeolians who dwell in the territory of Troy [26.25,39.95] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaIlium, and of the Gergithae, a remnant of the ancient Trojans. While he was conquering these nations, however, Hymaees himself died of a sickness in the +Troas (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Troad.