Herodotus notes without comment that the Persians installed democracies in the Ionian cities — a governance datum worth surfacing beside the Cleisthenic reform.希罗多德不加评论地记下波斯人在伊奥尼亚诸城设立民主政体，此项治理事实值得与克利斯提尼改革并置显示。
The accounts记述 · the ancient witnesses
Greek historians · 希腊史家
Herodotus — Histories （希罗多德·历史）primary source · 源典1 loci · sparse
§ 6.18–18 · 1/1 in the cited books
Hdt. 6.31–33 and 6.42–43 — the netting of the islands, the burning of the cities, and then Artaphrenes' assessment of tribute by measured land and Mardonius' replacement of the tyrants with democracies希罗多德 6.31–33 与 6.42–43——以人网横扫诸岛、焚毁城邑，继而阿尔塔弗列涅斯按丈量土地定贡额，马多尼奥斯废僭主而立民主
Provenance: “primary source” = curated canonical witness (editorial); “dated witness” = derived from the ToposText date index by year-span, with the matched loci count. Sparse counts may include incidental mentions.出处：「源典」为校订之正典见证（编辑判断）；「系年见证」由 ToposText 系年索引按年代跨度推得，附匹配条目数；稀少者或含偶涉。
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→ See this and all 18 historians on the chronology spine于编年脊柱上一览本事件与全部 18 位史家