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Persians were still fighting, the Lacedemonians and those with themarrived, and joined in carrying through the rest of the work; and ofthe Hellenes themselves many fell there and especially many of theSikyonians, together with their commander Perilaos. And those of theSamians who were serving in the army, being in the camp of the Medesand having been deprived of their arms, when they saw that from thevery first the battle began to be doubtful,[111] did as much as theycould, endeavouring to give assistance to the Hellenes; and the otherIonians seeing that the Samians had set the example, themselves alsoupon that made revolt from the Persians and attacked the Barbarians.104. The Milesians too had been appointed to watch the passes of thePersians[112] in order to secure their safety, so that if that shouldafter all come upon them which actually came, they might have guidesand so get safe away to the summits of Mycale,--the Milesians, I say,had been appointed to do this, not only for that end but also for fearthat, if they were present in the camp, they might make some hostilemove:[113] but they did in fact the opposite of that which they wereappointed to do; for they not only directed them in the flight byother than the right paths, by paths indeed which led towards theenemy, but also at last they themselves became their worst foes andbegan to slay them. Thus then for the second time Ionia revolted fromthe Persians.105. In this battle, of the Hellenes the Athenians were the best men,and of the Athenians Hermolycos the son of Euthoinos, a man who hadtrained for the /pancration/. This Hermolycos after these events, whenthere was war between the Athenians and the Carystians, was killed inbattle at Kyrnos in the Carystian land near Geraistos, and there wasburied. After the Athenians the Corinthians, Troizenians andSikyonians were the best.106. When the Hellenes had slain the greater number of the Barbarians,some in the battle and others in their flight, they set fire to theships and to the whole of the wall, having first brought out the spoilto the sea-shore; and among the rest they found some stores of money.So having set fire to the wall and to the ships they sailed away; andwhen they came to Samos, the Hellenes deliberated about removing theinhabitants of Ionia, and considered where they ought to settle themin those parts of Hellas of which they had command, leaving Ionia tothe Barbarians: for it was evident to them that it was impossible onthe one hand for them to be always stationed as guards to protect theIonians, and on the other hand, if they were not stationed to protectthem, they had no hope that the Ionians would escape with impunityfrom the Persians. Therefore it seemed good to those of thePeloponnesians that were in authority that they should remove theinhabitants of the trading ports which belonged to those peoples of