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Now when the Paeonians heard that the Persians were marching against
them, they gathered themselves together, and marched down to the
sea-coast, since they thought the Persians would endeavour to enter
their country on that side. Here then they stood in readiness to
oppose the army of Megabazus. But the Persians, who knew that they
had collected, and were gone to keep guard at the pass near the sea,
got guides, and taking the inland route before the Paeonians were
aware, poured down upon their cities, from which the men had all
marched out; and finding them empty, easily got possession of them.
Then the men, when they heard that all their towns were taken,
scattered this way and that to their homes, and gave themselves up to
the Persians. And so these tribes of the Paeonians, to wit, the
Siropaeonians, the Paeoplians and all the others as far as Lake
Prasias, were torn from their seats and led away into Asia.
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