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hundred talents and be free from the penalty; the Eginetans howeverdid not acknowledge their wrong, but were more stubborn. For thisreason then, when they made request, none of the Argives now came totheir help at the charge of the State, but volunteers came to thenumber of a thousand; and their leader was a commander namedEurybates, a man who had practised the five contests.[82] Of these menthe greater number never returned back, but were slain by theAthenians in Egina; and the commander himself, Eurybates, fighting insingle combat[83] killed in this manner three men and was himselfslain by the fourth, Sophanes namely of Dekeleia. 93. The Eginetanshowever engaged in contest with the Athenians in ships, when thesewere in disorder, and defeated them; and they took of them four shipstogether with their crews.94. So the Athenians were at war with the Eginetans; and meanwhile thePersian was carrying forward his design, since he was put in mind everby his servant to remember the Athenians, and also because of the sonsof Peisistratos were near at hand and brought charges continuallyagainst the Athenians, while at the same time Dareios himself wishedto take hold of this pretext and subdue those nations of Hellas whichhad not given him earth and water. Mardonios then, since he had faredmiserably in his expedition, he removed from his command; andappointing other generals to command he despatched them againstEretria and Athens, namely Datis, who was a Mede by race, andArtaphrenes the son of Artaphrenes, a nephew of the king: and he sentthem forth with the charge to reduce Athens and Eretria to slavery andto bring the slaves back into his presence. 95. When these who hadbeen appointed to command came in their march from the king to theAleïan plain in Kilikia, taking with them a large and well-equippedland-army, then while they were encamping there, the whole navalarmament came up, which had been appointed for several nations tofurnish; and there came to them also the ships for carrying horses,which in the year before Dareios had ordered his tributaries to makeready. In these they placed their horses, and having embarked theland-army in the ships they sailed for Ionia with six hundredtriremes. After this they did not keep their ships coasting along themainland towards the Hellespont and Thrace, but they started fromSamos and made their voyage by the Icarian Sea[84] and between theislands; because, as I think, they feared more than all else thevoyage round Athos, seeing that in the former year[85] while makingthe passage by this way they had come to great disaster. Moreover alsoNaxos compelled them, since it had not been conquered at the formertime.[86] 96. And when they had arrived at Naxos, coming against itfrom the Icarian Sea (for it was against Naxos first that the Persiansintended to make expedition, remembering the former events), theNaxians departed forthwith fleeing to the mountains, and did not await