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The Athenians now arrived with a fleet of twenty sail, and brought
also in their company five triremes of the Eretrians; which had joined
the expedition, not so much out of goodwill towards Athens, as to pay
a debt which they already owed to the people of Miletus. For in the
old war between the Chalcideans and Eretrians, the Milesians fought
on the Eretrian side throughout, while the Chalcideans had the help
of the Samian people. Aristagoras, on their arrival, assembled the
rest of his allies, and proceeded to attack Sardis, not however
leading the army in person, but appointing to the command his own
brother Charopinus and Hermophantus, one of the citizens, while he
himself remained behind in Miletus.
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