Complex sentence: The Persian force sailed from Cilicia firstly to the island of Rhodes, where a Lindian Temple Chronicle records that Datis besieged the city of Lindos, but was unsuccessful.
Split into simpler sentences: The Persian force sailed from Cilicia to Rhodes, where a Lindian Temple Chronicle Lind. D 1-59 in C. Higbie (2003) records that Datis besieged the city of Lindos, but was unsuccessful.