Herodotus - The Histories.pdf

14 V Herodotus
which they had made with Aeaces, hoisted sail,
and quitting their post bore away for Samos,
except eleven ships, whose captains gave no heed
to the orders of the commanders, but remained
and took part in the battle. The state of Samos, in
consideration of this action, granted to these men,
as an acknowledgment if their bravery, the honour
of having their names, and the names of their
fathers, inscribed upon a pillar, which still stands
in the market-place. The Lesbians also, when they
saw the Samians, who were drawn up next them,
begin to flee, themselves did the like; and the
example, once set, was followed by the greater
number of the Ionians.
Of those who remained and fought, none were so
rudely handled as the Chians, who displayed
prodigies of valour, and disdained to play the part
of cowards. They furnished to the common fleet,
as I mentioned above, one hundred ships, having
each of them forty armed citizens, and those
picked men, on board; and when they saw the
greater portion of the allies betraying the common
cause, they for their part, scorning to imitate