[153] For the celebrated interview of Alexander with Apelles at Ephesus, see Aelian (Varia Historia, ii. 3).
[154] Cf. Herodotus, vi. 7. Here the Persians destroyed the Ionic fleet, B.C. 497.
[155] Famous for the victory won near it by Leotychides and Xanthippus over the Persians, B.C. 479.
[156] Cf. Vergil (Aeneid, vi. 3). Obvertunt pelago proras. See Conington’s note.
[157] Strabo (xiv. 1) says that Miletus had four harbours.
[158] ἐφομαρτούντων. This word is rare in prose. See Homer (Iliad, viii. 191); Apollonius Rhodius, i. 201.
[159] Miletus lay nearly ten miles south of the mouth of the Maeander.
[160] A similar stratagem was used by Lysander at Aegospotami, B.C. 405. See Xenophon (Hellenics, ii. 1).
[161] Iassus was a city in Caria on the Iassian Gulf, founded by the Argives and further colonized by the Milesians.
[162] Caria formed the south-west angle of Asia Minor. The Greeks asserted that the Carians were emigrants from Crete. We learn from Thucydides and Herodotus that they entered the service of foreign rulers. They formed the body-guard of queen Athaliah, who had usurped the throne and stood in need of foreign mercenaries. The word translated in our Bible in 2 Kings xi. 4, 19 as captains, ought to be rendered Carians. See Fuerst’s Hebrew Lexicon, sub voce כָּרִֽי