MYCALE, a city and mountain of Caria; also a
promontory of Asia opposite Samos, celebrated for a
battle which was fought there between the Greeks and
Persians about the year of Rome 275. The Persians
were about 100,000 men, who had just returned from
the unsuccessful expedition of Xerxes in Greece.—
They had drawn their ships to the shore, and fortified
themselves strongly, as if determined to support a siege.
They suffered the Greeks to disembark from their fleet
without the least molestation, and were soon obliged to
give way before the cool and resolute intrepidity of an
inferior number of men. The Greeks obtained com-
plete victory, slaughtered some thousands of the enemy,
burned their camp, and sailed back to Samos with an
immense booty, in which were 70 chests of money.