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Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coes into their power, than
they led him forth from the city and stoned him; the Cymaeans, on the
other hand, allowed their tyrant to go free; as likewise did most of
the others. And so this form of government ceased throughout all the
cities. Aristagoras the Milesian, after he had in this way put down
the tyrants, and bidden the cities choose themselves captains in their
room, sailed away himself on board a trireme to Lacedaemon; for he
had great need of obtaining the aid of some powerful ally.
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