Histories

After travelling over the whole country and finding only a few such men, they assembled the people immediately upon their return to the city and appointed as rulers of the state those whose lands they had found well tilled. This they did in the belief that these men were likely to take as good care of public affairs as they had of their own, and they ordained that the rest of the Milesians who had been at feud should obey these men.

It was in this way that the Parians made peace in Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, but now these cities began to bring trouble upon Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia. Certain men of substance who had been banished by the common people, went in exile to Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus.

Now it chanced that the deputy ruling Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus was Aristagoras son of Molpagoras, son-in-law and cousin of that Histiaeus son of Lysagoras whom Darius kept with him at Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa. Histiaeus was tyrant of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus but was at Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa when the Naxians, who had been his guests and friends, arrived.

When the Naxians came to Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, they asked Aristagoras if he could give them enough power to return to their own country. Believing that he would become ruler of +Nisos Naxos [25.583,32.33] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Naxos if they were restored to their city with his help and using as a pretext their friendship with Histiaeus, he made them this proposal: