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In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians for eleven
years, in the course of which he inflicted on them two terrible blows;
one in their own country in the district of Limeneium, the other in
the plain of the Maeander. During six of these eleven years,
Sadyattes, the son of Ardys who first lighted the flames of this
war, was king of Lydia, and made the incursions. Only the five
following years belong to the reign of Alyattes, son of Sadyattes,
who (as I said before) inheriting the war from his father, applied
himself to it unremittingly. The Milesians throughout the contest
received no help at all from any of the Ionians, excepting those of
Chios, who lent them troops in requital of a like service rendered
them in former times, the Milesians having fought on the side of the
Chians during the whole of the war between them and the people of Erythrae.
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