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prevail; but nevertheless it was resolved to make revolt, and that oneof them should sail to Myus, to make the force which had returned fromNaxos and was then there, and endeavour to seize the commanders whosailed in the ships. 37. So Iatragoras was sent for this purpose andseized by craft Oliatos the son of Ibanollis of Mylasa, and Histiaiosthe son of Tymnes of Termera, and Coës the son of Erxander, to whomDareios had given Mytilene as a gift, and Aristagoras the son ofHeracleides of Kyme, and many others; and then Aristagoras openly maderevolt and devised all that he could to the hurt of Dareios. And firsthe pretended to resign the despotic power and give to Miletosequality,[23] in order that the Milesians might be willing to revoltwith him: then afterwards he proceeded to do this same thing in therest of Ionia also; and some of the despots he drove out, but thosewhom he had taken from the ships which had sailed with him to Naxis,these he surrendered, because he desired to do a pleasure to theircities, delivering them over severally to that city from which eachone came. 38. Now the men of Mitylene, so soon as they received Coësinto their hands, brought him out and stoned him to death; but the menof Kyme let their despot go, and so also most of the others let themgo. Thus then the despots were deposed in the various cities; andAristagoras the Milesian, after having deposed the despots, bade eachpeople appoint commanders in their several cities, and then himselfset forth as an envoy to Lacedemon; for in truth it was necessary thathe should find out some powerful alliance.39. Now at Sparta Anaxandrides the son of Leon was no longer survivingas king, but had brought his life to an end; and Cleomenes the son ofAnaxandrides was holding the royal power, not having obtained it bymerit but by right of birth. For Anaxandrides had to wife his ownsister's daughter and she was by him much beloved, but no childrenwere born to him by her. This being so, the Ephors summoned him beforethem and said: "If thou dost not for thyself take thought in time, yetwe cannot suffer this to happen, that the race of Eurysthenes shouldbecome extinct. Do thou therefore put away from thee the wife whomthou now hast, since, as thou knowest, she bears thee no children, andmarry another: and in doing so thou wilt please the Spartans." He madeanswer saying that he would do neither of these two things, and thatthey did not give him honourable counsel, in that they advised him tosend away the wife whom he had, though she had done him no wrong, andto take to his house another; and in short he would not follow theiradvice. 40. Upon this the Ephors and the Senators deliberated togetherand proposed to Anaxandrides as follows: "Since then we perceive thatthou art firmly attached to the wife whom thou now hast, consent to dothis, and set not thyself against it, lest the Spartans take somecounsel about thee other than might be wished. We do not ask of theethe putting away of the wife whom thou hast; but do thou give to her