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With this money they bought of the Hermionians the island of Hydrea,
off the coast of the Peloponnese, and this they gave in trust to the
Troezenians, to keep for them, while they themselves went on to
Crete, and founded the city of Cydonia. They had not meant, when
they set sail, to settle there, but only to drive out the Zacynthians
from the island. However they rested at Cydonia, where they
flourished greatly for five years. It was they who built the various
temples that may still be seen at that place, and among them the fane
of Dictyna. But in the sixth year they were attacked by the
Eginetans, who beat them in a sea-fight, and, with the help of the
Cretans, reduced them all to slavery. The beaks of their ships,
which carried the figure of a wild boar, they sawed off, and laid them
up in the temple of Minerva in Egina. The Eginetans took part
against the Samians on account of an ancient grudge, since the
Samians had first, when Amphicrates was king of Samos, made war on
them and done great harm to their island, suffering, however, much
damage also themselves. Such was the reason which moved the Eginetans
to make this attack.
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