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Pactyas, when news came of the near approach of the army sent against
him, fled in terror to Cyme. Mazares, therefore, the Median
general, who had marched on Sardis with a detachment of the army of
Cyrus, finding on his arrival that Pactyas and his troops were gone,
immediately entered the town. And first of all he forced the Lydians
to obey the orders of his master, and change (as they did from that
time) their entire manner of living. Next, he despatched messengers
to Cyme, and required to have Pactyas delivered up to him. On this
the Cymaeans resolved to send to Branchidae and ask the advice of the
god. Branchidae is situated in the territory of Miletus, above the
port of Panormus. There was an oracle there, established in very
ancient times, which both the Ionians and Aeolians were wont often to consult.
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