 As a result, the Ionian fleet retreated from Cyprus and five months later the Persians regained control of the island.Onesilus’ brother, Gorgus Chersides, was then reinstated by the Persians as king of Salamis.Herodotus also reports that in retaliation for Onesilus' siege of Amathus, the townspeople cut off his head after his death and hung it above the town gates as a trophy, and later observed that his desiccated skull had been occupied by a swarm of bees and their honeycomb (a phenomenon similar to bugonia).