Histories

But Xanthippus the general was unmoved by this promise, for the people of Elaeus desired that Artayctes should be put to death in revenge for Protesilaus, and the general himself was so inclined. So they carried Artayctes away to the headland where Xerxes had bridged the strait (or, by another story, to the hill above the town of Madytus), and there nailed him to boards and hanged him. As for his son, they stoned him to death before his father's eyes.

This done, they sailed away to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, carrying with them the cables of the bridges to be dedicated in their temples, and all sorts of things in addition. This, then, is all that was done in this year.

This Artayctes who was crucified was the grandson of that Artembares [*](There is an Artembares in Hdt. 1.114; but he is a Mede, and so can hardly be meant here.) who instructed the Persians in a design which they took from him and laid before Cyrus; this was its purport: