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[2] Consequently, he went on to say, if they would return the kingdom to him, he would forgive them for this guilty act1 and for the campaign they had made against Sardis; but if they opposed his demand, they would suffer a worse fate than had the Eretrians.2

1 Of expelling his ancestor.

2 Eretria was plundered and burned by the Persians a few days before the battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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