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When Aristagoras heard this he was greatly rejoiced, and went home in
good heart to Miletus. And Artaphernes, after he had sent a
messenger to Susa to lay the plans of Aristagoras before the king,
and received his approval of the undertaking, made ready a fleet of two
hundred triremes and a vast army of Persians and their confederates.
The command of these he gave to a Persian named Megabates, who
belonged to the house of the Achaemenids, being nephew both to himself
and to King Darius. It was to a daughter of this man that Pausanias
the Lacedaemonian, the son of Cleombrotus (if at least there be any
truth in the tale), was allianced many years afterwards, when he
conceived the desire of becoming tyrant of Greece. Artaphernes now,
having named Megabates to the command, sent forward the armament to Aristagoras.
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