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their attack; but the Persians made slaves of those of them whom theycaught and set fire to both the temples and the town. Having so donethey put out to sea to attack the other islands.97. While these were doing thus, the Delians also had left Delos andfled away to Tenos; and when the armament was sailing in thither,Datis sailed on before and did not allow the ships to anchor at theisland of Delos, but at Rhenaia on the other side of the channel; andhe himself, having found out by inquiry where the men of Delos were,sent a herald and addressed them thus: "Holy men, why are ye fled awayand departed, having judged of me that which is not convenient? foreven I of myself have wisdom at least so far, and moreover it has beenthus commanded me by the king, not to harm at all that land in whichthe two divinities were born, neither the land itself nor theinhabitants of it. Now therefore return to your own possessions anddwell in your island." Thus he proclaimed by a herald to the Delians;and after this he piled up and burned upon the altar three hundredtalents' weight of frankincense. 98. Datis having done these thingssailed away with his army to fight against Eretria first, taking withhim both Ionians and Aiolians; and after he had put out to sea fromthence, Delos was moved, not having been shaken (as the Deliansreported to me) either before that time or since that down to my owntime; and this no doubt the god[86a] manifested as a portent to men ofthe evils that were about to be; for in the time of Dareios the son ofHystaspes and Xerxes the son of Dareios and Artoxerxes the son ofXerxes, three generations following upon one another, there happenedmore evils to Hellas than during the twenty other generations whichcame before Dareios, some of the evils coming to it from the Persians,and others from the leaders themselves of Hellas warring together forsupremacy. Thus it was not unreasonable that Delos should be moved,which was before unmoved. [And in an oracle it was thus written aboutit:"Delos too will I move, unmoved though it hath been aforetime."][87]Now in the Hellenic tongue the names which have been mentioned havethis meaning--Dareios means "compeller,"[88] Xerxes "warrior,"[89]Artoxerxes "great warrior."[90] Thus then might the Hellenes rightlycall these kings in their own tongue.99. The Barbarians then, when they had departed from Delos, touched atthe islands as they went, and from them received additional forces andtook sons of the islanders as hostages: and when in sailing roundabout the islands they put in also to Carystos, seeing that theCarystians would neither give them hostages nor consent to join in anexpedition against cities that were their neighbours, meaning Eretria