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As for Histiaeus, when his hopes in this matter were disappointed,
he persuaded the Chians to carry him back to Miletus; but the
Milesians were too well pleased at having got quit of Aristagoras to
be anxious to receive another tyrant into their country; besides which
they had now tasted liberty. They therefore opposed his return; and
when he endeavoured to force an entrance during the night, one of the
inhabitants even wounded him in the thigh. Having been thus rejected
from his country, he went back to Chios; whence, after failing in an
attempt to induce the Chians to give him ships, he crossed over to
Mytilene, where he succeeded in obtaining vessels from the Lesbians.
They fitted out a squadron of eight triremes, and sailed with him to
the Hellespont, where they took up their station, and proceeded to
seize all the vessels which passed out from the Euxine, unless the
crews declared themselves ready to obey his orders.
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