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Updated: June 13, 2025
Naxos lay to the right, and I was trimming the sails to carry us there, when some by signs and others by whispers signified to me their will that I should sail in the opposite direction, and take the boy to Egypt to sell him for a slave. I was confounded and said, 'Let some one else pilot the ship; withdrawing myself from any further agency in their wickedness.
"If you wish for peace," returned the satrap, "recall Hippias." Rather than accede to this condition, that brave people, in their petty share of the extremity of Greece, chose to be deemed the enemies of the vast monarchy of Persia. Histiaeus, Tyrant of Miletus, removed to Persia. The Government of that City deputed to Aristagoras, who invades Naxos with the aid of the Persians.
His successful expeditions to the Thracian Chersonese, and to Sinope on the Black Sea, together with his colonies planted at Naxos, Andros, Oreus in Euboea, Brea in Macedonia, and Ægina, as well as Thurii in Italy, and Amphipolis on the Strymon, did much to extend and confirm the naval supremacy of Athens, and afford a means of subsistence for her poorer citizens.
But Aulus, quickly recovering after he had relieved his over-burdened stomach, was as eager to eat as before. "Let some one bring me marble-dust," he commanded, "or clay of Naxos, sea-water anything! Perhaps it would do me good to bathe." He swallowed a quantity of snow; then hesitated between a ragout and a dish of blackbirds; and finally decided in favour of gourds served in honey.
So, in the Heroides, the idea of the desolate and love-lorn Ariadne writing a letter from the barren isle of Naxos is in itself ridiculous, nor can all the pathos of her grief redeem the irony. Helen wishes she had had more practice in correspondence, so that she might perhaps touch her lover's chilly heart.
Her whole body is bent to flight, but she is 'affear'd of her own feet. She is well enough educated to know that he who smiles at her is no mortal, but Bacchus himself, the very lord of Naxos. He stands before her, the divine debauchee racemiferis frontem circumdatus uvis; and all around her, a waif on his territory, are the symbols of his majesty and his power.
Immediately upon his return the generals manned and victualled sixty ships out of the whole fleet and coasted along to Naxos, leaving the rest of the armament behind them at Rhegium with one of their number. Received by the Naxians, they then coasted on to Catana, and being refused admittance by the inhabitants, there being a Syracusan party in the town, went on to the river Terias.
Lygdamis is under obligations to him, and cannot hold his own in Naxos without Samian help. He has won over the Amphiktyonic council to his side by presenting the Apollo of Delos with the neighboring island of Rhenea.
Where are you going to carry me? One of them replied, 'Fear nothing; tell us where you wish to go and we will take you there. 'Naxos is my home, said Bacchus; 'take me there and you shall be well rewarded. They promised so to do, and told me to pilot the ship to Naxos.
The sentence of banishment for life has been passed against him, and, until I heard from my friend here that he was captain of the pirate which has been seen off this island, I knew not what had become of him. "Those on board the Naxos were taken prisoners, and confined in the pirate's hold, which they found already filled with captives taken from other ships.
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