As he sailed back along the coast he put in, among other places, at Notium, the harbor of Colophon, where the Colophonians had settled after the upper city had been captured, at about the time of the second Peloponnesian invasion of Attica, by Itamenes and his foreign troops who had been called in as a result of the political ambition of individuals. However, the exiles who had settled at Notium again split up into two hostile parties. One of these called in Arcadian and foreign mercenaries from Pissuthnes, quartered them in a part of the town which they cut off from the rest by a wall, and so formed a separate state with the help of the pro-Persian party among the Colophonians from the upper city. The other party at Notium had fled into exile and now called in Paches. Paches invited Hippias, the general of the Arcadian mercenaries inside the fortification, to meet him for a discussion, promising that, if no agreement was reached, he would see that he got back again safe and sound to the fortification. Hippias therefore came out to meet Paches, who put him under arrest, though not into chains. He then made a sudden attack and took the fortification by surprise. He put to death all the Arcadian and foreign troops who were inside and, later, as he had promised, he brought Hippias back there, and, as soon as he was inside, he had him seized and shot down with arrows. He handed over Notium to the Colophonians, excluding the pro-Persian party among them. Later the Athenians sent out settlers and made a colony of the place under Athenian laws, after having collected all the Colophonians who could be found in other cities.

From Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972, p. 211.