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In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant of Curium, who
commanded no inconsiderable body of troops, went over with them to the
enemy. On this desertion of the Curians - Argive colonists, if
report says true - forthwith the war-chariots of the Salaminians
followed the example set them, and went over likewise; whereupon
victory declared in favour of the Persians; and the army of the
Cyprians being routed, vast numbers were slain, and among them
Onesilus, the son of Chersis, who was the author of the revolt, and
Aristocyprus, king of the Solians. This Aristocyprus was son of
Philocyprus, whom Solon the Athenian, when he visited Cyprus,
praised in his poems beyond all other sovereigns.
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