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Hippias hereupon withdrew; and Amyntas the Macedonian offered him
the city of Anthemus, while the Thessalians were willing to give him
Iolcos: but he would accept neither the one nor the other, preferring
to go back to Sigeum, which city Pisistratus had taken by force of
arms from the Mytilenaeans. Pisistratus, when he became master of
the place, established there as tyrant his own natural son,
Hegesistratus, whose mother was an Argive woman. But this prince
was not allowed to enjoy peaceably what his father had made over to
him; for during very many years there had been war between the
Athenians of Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans of the city called
Achilleum. They of Mytilene insisted on having the place restored to
them: but the Athenians refused, since they argued that the Aeolians
had no better claim to the Trojan territory than themselves, or than
any of the other Greeks who helped Menelaus on occasion of the rape of Helen.
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