3. Then Histiaios, being asked by the Ionians for what reason he had so urgently charged Aristagoras to revolt from the king and had wrought so great an evil for the Ionians, did not by any means declare to them that which had been in truth the cause, but reported to them that king Dareios had resolved to remove the Phenicians from their land and to settle them in Ionia, and the Ionians in Phenicia;
3. Orduan, jakina, joniarrek galdetu zioten ea zer dela-eta izan zuen horrenbeste irrika Aristagorasi Darioren aurka jarki zedin agintzeko eta joniarrei halako hondamena ekartzeko, baina Histieok ez zien inola ere azaldu egiazko arrazoia, baizik eta zera adierazi: