The histories of Herodotus;

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quence of this the Persians became superior to the Cyprians
and the army being put to flight, many others fell, and among
them Onesilus, son of Chersis, who had contrived the revolt
of the Cyprians, and the King of the Solians, Aristocyprus, son
of Philocyprus ; of that Philocyprus, whom Solon the Athenian,
when he visited Cyprus, celebrated in his verses above
all tyrants. Now the Amathusians, having cut off the head
of Onesilus, because he had besieged them, took it to Amathus,
and suspended it over the gates ; and when the head
was suspended, and had become hollow, a swarm of bees entered
it, and filled it with honeycomb. When this happened,
the Amathusians consulted the oracle respecting it, and an
answer was given them that " they should take down the head
and bury it, and sacrifice annually to Onesilus, as to a hero ;
and if they did so, it would turn out better for them." The
Amathusians did accordingly, and continued to do so until
my time. The Ionians, who had fought by sea at Cyprus,
when they heard that the affairs of Onesilus were ruined, and
that the rest of the Cyprian cities were besieged, except Salamis,
but this the Salaminians had restored to their former
king Gorgus ; the Ionians, as soon as they learned this, sailed
away to Ionia. Of the cities in Cyprus, Soli held out against
the siege for the longest time; but the Persians, having undermined
the wall all round, took it in the fifth month.
Thus the Cyprians, having been free for one year, were
again reduced to servitude. But Daurises, who had married
a daughter of Darius, and Hymees, and Otanes, and other
Persian generals who also had married daughters of Darius,
having pursued those of the Ionians who had attacked Sardis,
and having driven them to their ships, when they had conquered
them in battle, next divided the cities among themselves
and proceeded to plunder them. Daurises, directing
his march toward the cities on the Hellespont, took Dardanus
he also took Abydos, Percote, Lampsacus, and Psesus ; these
he took each in one day. But as he was advancing from Paesus
against Parium, news was brought him that the Carians, having
conspired with the Ionians, had revolted from the Persians.
Therefore turning back from the Hellespont, he led
his army against Caria. Somehow news of this was brought
to the Carians before Daurises arrived. The Carians, having
heard of it, assembled at what are called the White Columns,
on the river Marsyas, which, flowing from the territory of
Idrias, falls into the Maeander. When the Carians were assembled
on this spot, several other propositions were made,
of which the best appeared to be that of Pixodarus, son of
;