99. Aristagoras meanwhile, when the Athenians had arrived with twenty ships, bringing with them also five triremes of the Eretrians, he joined the expedition not for the sake of the Athenians but of the Milesians themselves, to repay them a debt which they owed (for the Milesians in former times had borne with the Eretrians the burden of all that war which they had with the Chalkidians at the time when the Chalkidians on their side were helped by the Samians against the Eretrians and Milesians),-when these, I say, had arrived and the other allies were on the spot, Aristagoras proceeded to make a march upon Sardis.
99. Aristagorasek bitartean, athenastarrak beren hogei untziekin heldu zirenean, bidean batu zitzaizkien eretriarren bost triererekin batera-hauek espedizioan esku hartzen bazuten, ez zen athenastarrenganako adeitasunez, baizik miletoarrei beraiei zor zieten mesede baten ordainez (izan ere, arestian miletoarrek laguntza eman baitzieten eretriarrei khalzistarren kontrako gerran, samoarrek beren aldetik khalzistarrei eretriar eta miletoarren kontra lagundu zieten une berean)-, horiek, beraz, eta gainerako aliatuak bildu zirenean, Aristagorasek, diot, Sardesen aurkako espedizioa agindu zuen.