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Miltiades, did Metiochos no harm but on the contrary very much good;for he gave him a house and possessions and a Persian wife, by whom hehad children born who have been ranked as Persians. Miltiadesmeanwhile came from Imbros to Athens.42. In the course of this year there was done by the Persians nothingmore which tended to strife with the Ionians, but these things whichfollow were done in this year very much to their advantage.--Artaphrenes the governor of Sardis sent for envoys from all the citiesand compelled the Ionians to make agreements among themselves, so thatthey might give satisfaction for wrongs and not plunder one another'sland. This he compelled them to do, and also he measured theirterritories by parasangs,--that is the name which the Persians give tothe length of thirty furlongs,[28]--he measured, I say, by these, andappointed a certain amount of tribute for each people, which continuesstill unaltered from that time even to my own days, as it wasappointed by Artaphrenes; and the tribute was appointed to be nearlyof the same amount for each as it had been before. 43. These werethings which tended to peace for the Ionians; but at the beginning ofthe spring, the other commanders having all been removed by the king,Mardonios the son of Gobryas came down to the sea, bringing with him avery large land-army and a very large naval force, being a young manand lately married to Artozostra daughter of king Dareios. WhenMardonios leading this army came to Kilikia, he embarked on board aship himself and proceeded together with the other ships, while otherleaders led the land-army to the Hellespont. Mardonios however sailingalong the coast of Asia came to Ionia: and here I shall relate a thingwhich will be a great marvel to those of the Hellenes who do notbelieve that to the seven men of the Persians Otanes declared as hisopinion that the Persians ought to have popular rule;[29] forMardonios deposed all the despots of the Ionians and establishedpopular governments in the cities. Having so done he hastened on tothe Hellespont; and when there was collected a vast number of shipsand a large land-army, they crossed over the Hellespont in the shipsand began to make their way through Europe, and their way was directedagainst Eretria and Athens. 44. These, I say, furnished them thepretence for the expedition, but they had it in their minds to subdueas many as they could of the Hellenic cities; and in the first placethey subdued with their ships the Thasians, who did not even raise ahand to defend themselves: then with the land-army they gained theMacedonians to be their servants in addition to those whom they hadalready; for all the nations on the East of the Macedonians[30] hadbecome subject to them already before this. Crossing over then fromThasos to the opposite coast, they proceeded on their way near theland as far as Acanthos, and then starting from Acanthos theyattempted to get round Mount Athos; but as they sailed round, there