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the Carians dismissed the plans which they were before considering andprepared to renew the war again from the beginning: and when thePersians came to attack them, they engaged with them and fought abattle, and they were worsted yet more completely than before; andwhile many were slain of all parties,[94] the Milesians suffered most.121. Then afterwards the Carians repaired this loss and retrievedtheir defeat; for being informed that the Persians had set forth tomarch upon their cities, they laid an ambush on the road which is byPedasos,[95] and the Persians falling into it by night were destroyedboth they and their commanders, namely Daurises and Amorges andSisimakes; and with them died also Myrsos the son of Gyges. Of thisambush the leader was Heracleides the son of Ibanollis, a man ofMylasa.122. These then of the Persians were thus destroyed; and meanwhileHymaies, who was another of those who pursued after the Ionians thathad made the expedition to Sardis, directed his march to the Propontisand took Kios in Mysia; and having conquered this city, when he wasinformed that Daurises had left the Hellespont and was marchingtowards Caria, he left the Propontis and led his army to theHellespont: and he conquered all the Aiolians who occupy the districtof Ilion, and also the Gergithes, who were left behind as a remnant ofthe ancient Teucrians. While conquering these tribes Hymaies himselfended his life by sickness in the land of Troas. 123. He thus broughthis life to an end; and Artaphrenes the governor of the province ofSardis was appointed with Otanes the third of the commanders to makethe expedition against Ionia and that part of Aiolia which borderedupon it. Of Ionia these took the city of Clazomenai, and of theAiolians Kyme.124. While the cities were thus being taken, Aristagoras the Milesian,being, as he proved in this instance, not of very distinguishedcourage, since after having disturbed Ionia and made preparation ofgreat matters[96] he counselled running away when he saw these things,(moreover it had become clear to him that it was impossible toovercome king Dareios),--he, I say, having regard to these things,called together those of his own party and took counsel with them,saying that it was better that there should be a refuge prepared forthem, in case that they should after all be driven out from Miletos,and proposing the question whether he should lead them from thence toSardinia, to form a colony there, or to Myrkinos in the land of theEdonians, which Histiaios had been fortifying, having received it as agift from Dareios. This was the question proposed by Aristagoras. 125.Now the opinion of Hecataios the son of Hegesander the historian[97]was that he should not take a colony to either of these places, butbuild a wall of defence for himself in the island of Leros and keep