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Thus was Miletus bereft of its inhabitants. In Samos the people of
the richer sort were much displeased with the doings of the captains,
and the dealings they had had the Medes; they therefore held a
council, very shortly after the sea-fight, and resolved that they
would not remain to become the slaves of Aeaces and the Persians, but
before the tyrant set foot in their country, would sail away and found
a colony in another land. Now it chanced that about this time the
Zanclaeans of Sicily had sent ambassadors to the Ionians, and
invited them to Kale-Acte where they wished an Ionian city to be
founded. This place, Kale-Acte (or the Fair Strand) as it is
called, is in the country of the Sicilians, and is situated in the
part of Sicily which looks towards Tyrrhenia. The offer thus made to
all the Ionians was embraced only by the Samians, and by such of the
Milesians as had contrived to effect their escape.
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