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The Greeks, when they had slaughtered the greater portion of the
barbarians, either in the battle or in the rout, set fire to their
ships and burnt them, together with the bulwark which had been raised
for their defence, first however removing therefrom all the booty, and
carrying it down to the beach. Besides other plunder, they found here
many caskets of money. When they had burnt the rampart and the
vessels, the Greeks sailed away to Samos, and there took counsel
together concerning the Ionians, whom they thought of removing out of
Asia. Ionia they proposed to abandon to the barbarians; and their
doubt was, in what part of their own possessions in Greece they should
settle its inhabitants. For it seemed to them a thing impossible that
they should be ever on the watch to guard and protect Ionia; and yet
otherwise there could be no hope that the Ionians would escape the
vengeance of the Persians. Hereupon the Peloponnesian leaders
proposed that the seaport towns of such Greeks as had sided with the
Medes should be taken away from them, and made over to the Ionians.
The Athenians, on the other hand, were very unwilling that any
removal at all should take place, and disliked the Peloponnesians
holding councils concerning their colonists. So, as they set
themselves against the change, the Peloponnesians yielded with a good
will. Hereupon the Samians, Chians, Lesbians, and other
islanders, who had helped the Greeks at this time, were received into
the league of the allies; and took the oaths, binding themselves to be
faithful, and not desert the common cause. Then the Greeks sailed
away to the Hellespont, where they meant to break down the bridges,
which they supposed to be still extended across the strait.
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