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Histiaeus now led a numerous army, composed of Ionians and Aelians,
against Thasos, and had laid siege to the place when news arrived that
the Phoenicians were about to quit Miletus and attack the other cities
of Ionia. On hearing this, Histiaeus raised the siege of Thasos,
and hastened to Lesbos with all his forces. There his army was in
great straits for want of food; whereupon Histiaeus left Lesbos and
went across to the mainland, intending to cut the crops which were
growing in the Atarnean territory, and likewise in the plain of the
Caicus, which belonged to Mysia. Now it chanced that a certain
Persian named Harpagus was in these regions at the head of an army of
no little strength. He, when Histiaeus landed, marched out to meet
him, and engaging with his forces destroyed the greater number of
them, and took Histiaeus himself prisoner.
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