Datis having done these things sailed away with his army to fight against Eretria first, taking with him both Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out to sea from thence, Delos was moved, not having been shaken (as the Delians reported to me) either before that time or since that down to my own time; and this no doubt the god 928 manifested as a portent to men of the evils that were about to be; for in the time of Darius the son of Hystaspes and Xerxes the son of Darius and Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes, three generations following upon one another, there happened more evils to Hellas than during the twenty other generations which came before Darius, some of the evils coming to it from the Persians, and others from the leaders themselves of Hellas warring together for supremacy. Thus it was not unreasonable that Delos should be moved, which was before unmoved. [And in an oracle it was thus written about it: 929