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The superstition of Datis deprived them of this valuable booty; but we may safely conclude from the anecdote that, while rendering service to Persia, the keen-witted mariners took care not to neglect their own material interests. In the third and greatest of the expeditions conducted by Persia against Greece, the Phoenicians are found to have played a very important and prominent part.
After lingering, therefore, a short time near the shore, the fleet directed its course again toward the coasts of Asia. The mind of Datis was necessarily very ill at ease. He dreaded the wrath of Darius; for despots are very prone to consider military failures as the worst of crimes. The expedition had not, however, been entirely a failure.
Not the least interesting of Miss Bremer's many pilgrimages was the one she made to that plain of Marathon, where the genius of Miltiades beat back the legions of Persia under Datis the scene of the first great victory of the West over the East. The lower portion of the plain, which skirts the coast, was clothed with abundant harvests of wheat and rye, which waved softly in the wind.
He determined, therefore, to deposit it at Delos for safe keeping, until it could be returned to its proper home. Delos was a small but very celebrated island near the center of the Ægean Sea, and but a short distance from the spot where the Persian fleet was lying when Datis made this discovery.
Artabanus opposes the war. Repulse of Datis. Artabanus warns Xerxes of the danger of the expedition. Artabanus vindicates the character of the Greeks. Xerxes's displeasure. His angry reply to Artabanus. Xerxes's anxiety. He determines to abandon his project. Xerxes sees a vision in the night. The spirit appears a second time to Xerxes. Xerxes relates his dreams to Artabanus. Opinion of the latter.
Sparta itself had just been torn by an internal dissension between two claimants of the throne, one of whom named Demaratus had been ejected and later fled to the Persian court. The great expedition of 490 sailed straight across the Aegean, commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. Their primary objective was Eretria in Euboea, a city which had assisted the Ionians in their revolt.
A considerable part of the army which Datis was to command was raised in Persia; but orders had been sent on that large accessions to the army, consisting of cavalry, foot soldiers, ships, and seamen, and every other species of military force, should be raised in all the provinces of Asia Minor, and be ready to join it at various places of rendezvous.
A fleet of six hundred ships convoyed it to the rendezvous at Samos. The exiled tyrant Hippias was present to guide the forces to the attack of Attica. The Mede Datis, and Artaphernes, son of the satrap of Sardis, nephew to Darius, were the Persian generals. They had orders from Darius to bring the inhabitants of Athens as slaves to his presence. Naxos thus was invaded and easily subdued.
"This nook of earth? Ay, but Sparta itself must own no lord but me." "It is agreed." "If I release thee, wilt thou bear these offers to the king, travelling day and night till thou restest at the foot of his throne?" "I should carry tidings too grateful to suffer me to loiter by the road." "And Datis, he comprehends us not; but his eyes glitter fiercely on me.
She rushed through the courts of the palace, and out into the streets, crying like a mad woman "I am free! I am free!" She, had scarcely left the hall, when Datis, the "king's eye" reappeared with the news that the chief of the eunuchs was nowhere to be found.
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