Herodotus 1.141: "The first thing the Ionians and Aeolians did after the Lydians had been defeated by the Persians was send a delegation toCyrus at Sardis, since they wanted the terms of their subjection to him to be the same as they had been withCroesus. Cyrus listened to the delegation's suggestions and then told them a story. A pipe-player (aulete = aulos-player)once saw some fish in the sea, he said, and played his pipes(auloi) in the hope that they would come out on to the shore.His hopes came to nothing, so he grabbed a net, cast it over a large number of the fish, and hauled them in. When he saw the fish flopping about, he said to them, 'It's no good dancing now, because you weren't willing to come out dancing when I played my pipes.' [Cyrus told this story because]. . . theIonians had in fact refused to listen to Cyrus earlier, when he had sent a message asking them to rise up against Croesus..."

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