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This was the fourth time that the Dorians had invaded Attica: twice
they came as enemies, and twice they came to do good service to the
Athenian people. Their first invasion took place at the period when
they founded Megara, and is rightly placed in the reign of Codrus at
Athens; the second and third occasions were when they came from
Sparta to drive out the Pisistratidae; the fourth was the present
attack, when Cleomenes, at the head of a Peloponnesian army,
entered at Eleusis. Thus the Dorians had now four times invaded Attica.
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