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Meanwhile tidings of what had befallen Miletus reached Histiaeus the
Milesian, who was still at Byzantium, employed in intercepting the
Ionian merchantmen as they issued from the Euxine. Histiaeus had no
sooner heard the news than he gave the Hellespont in charge to
Bisaltes, son of Apollophanes, a native of Abydos, and himself,
at the head of his Lesbians, set sail for Chios. One of the Chian
garrisons which opposed him he engaged at a place called "The
Hollows," situated in the Chian territory, and of these he
slaughtered a vast number; afterwards, by the help of his Lesbians,
he reduced all the rest of the Chians, who were weakened by their
losses in the sea-fight, Polichne, a city of Chios, serving him as head-quarters.
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