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The barbarians, after loosing from Delos, proceeded to touch at the
other islands, and took troops from each, and likewise carried off a
number of the children as hostages. Going thus from one to another,
they came at last to Carystus; but here the hostages were refused by
the Carystians, who said they would neither give any, nor consent to
bear arms against the cities of their neighbours, meaning Athens and
Eretria. Hereupon the Persians laid siege to Carystus, and wasted
the country round, until at length the inhabitants were brought over
and agreed to do what was required of them.
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