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As he was sailing along the coast on his return he touched at Notium, the port of
Colophon.1 Here some inhabitants of the upper town had taken up their abode; for it had
been captured by Itamenes and the Barbarians, who had been invited into the city by a
certain local faction.
[2]
The capture took place about the time of the second invasion of Attica.
The refugees who settled in Notium again quarrelled among themselves.
The one party, having introduced Arcadian and Barbarian auxiliaries whom they had
obtained from Pissuthnes, stationed them in a fortified quarter of the town; the Persian
faction from the upper city of Colophon joined them and were living with them.
The other party had retired from the city, and being now in exile, called in Paches.
[3]
He proposed to Hippias, the commander of the Arcadians in the fortress, that they
should hold a conference, undertaking, if they could not agree, to put him back in the
fort, safe and sound.
So he came out, and Paches kept him in custody without fetters.
In the meantime he made an attack upon the unsuspecting garrison, took the fortress,
and slaughtered all the Arcadians and Barbarians whom he found within.
He then conducted Hippias into the fort, according to the agreement, and when he was
inside seized him and shot him to death with arrows.
[4]
He next handed over Notium to the Colophonians, excluding the Persian party.
The Athenians afterwards gathered together all the Colophonians who could be found in
the neighboring cities and colonised the place, to which they gave laws like their own,
under new founders whom they sent out from Athens.
1 Paches on his return puts in at Notium, the port of Colophon, on the invitation of an anti-Persian faction which had been driven out. He takes the citadel, and treacherously kills the commander Hippias. The Athenians re-establish the Colophonians in Notium.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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