The histories of Herodotus;

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which was then there, should endeavour to seize the captains
on board the ships. Iatragoras, having been despatched
for this very purpose, and having, by stratagem, seized Oli-
atus, son of Ibanolis of Mylassa, Histiaeus, son of Tymnes of
Termera, Coes, son of Erxandrus, to whom Darius had given
Mitylene, Aristagoras, son of Heraclides, of Cyme, and many
others, Aristagoras thus openly revolted, devising everything
he could against Darius. And first, in pretence, having laid
aside the sovereignty, he established an equality in Miletus,
in order that the Milesians might more readily join with him
in the revolt. And afterward he effected the same throughout
the rest of Ionia, expelling some of the tyrants ; and he delivered
up those whom he had taken from on board the ships
that had sailed with him against Naxos to the cities, in order
to gratify the people, giving them up generally to the respective
cities, from which each came. The Mityleneans, as soon
as they received Coes, led him out, and stoned him to death
but the Cymeans let their tyrant go ; and in like manner most
of the others let theirs go. Accordingly, there was a suppression
of tyrants throughout the cities. But Aristagoras the
Milesian, when he had suppressed the tyrants, and enjoined
them all to appoint magistrates in each of the cities, in the
next place went himself in a trireme as ambassador to Sparta,
for it was necessary for him to procure some powerful alliance.
Anaxandrides, son of Leon, no longer survived and reigned
over Sparta, but was already dead ; Cleomenes, son of Anaxandrides,
held the sovereignty, not having acquired it by his
virtues, but by his birth. Anaxandrides, who had married his
own sister's daughter, though she was very much beloved
by him, had no children ; this being the case, the Ephori, having
sent for him, said :
" If you do not provide for your own
interests, yet we must not overlook this, that the race of Eurysthenes
should become extinct. Do you therefore put away
the wife whom you have, since she bears no children, and
marry another, and by so doing you will gratify the Spartans."
He answered, saying that he would do neither of these things
and that they did not advise him well in urging him to dismiss
the wife he had, when she had committed no error, and
to take another in her place, and therefore he would not
obey them. Upon this the Ephori and senators, having consulted,
made the following proposal to Anaxandrides : " As
we see you strongly attached to the wife whom you have,
act as follows, and do not oppose it, lest the Spartans should
come to some unusual resolution respecting you. We do not
require of you the dismissal of your present wife pay her the
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