For Naxos was superior to all the other islands in wealth, and Miletos at the same time had just then come to the very height of its prosperity and was the ornament of Ionia; but before these events for two generations of men it had been afflicted most violently by faction until the Parians reformed it; for these the Milesians chose of all the Hellenes to be reformers of their State.
Hala ere, gertakari hauen aurretik, barne-istilu oso larriak izan zituzten bi belaunalditan zehar, paroarrek lortu zuten arte haien arteko bakea; zeren miletoarrek heleniar guztien artetik paroarrak hautatu baitzituzten bitartekaritzat.