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As the cities fell one after another, Aristagoras the Milesian (who
was in truth, as he now plainly showed, a man of but little
courage), notwithstanding that it was he who had caused the
disturbances in Ionia and made so great a commotion, began, seeing
his danger, to look about for means of escape. Being convinced that
it was in vain to endeavour to overcome King Darius, he called his
brothers-in-arms together, and laid before them the following
project: "'Twould be well," he said, "to have some place of
refuge, in case they were driven out of Miletus. Should he go out at
the head of a colony to Sardinia, or should he sail to Myrcinus in
Edonia, which Histiaeus had received as a gift from King Darius,
and had begun to fortify?"
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