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War accordingly continued, with many and various incidents, whereof
the following was one. In a battle which was gained by the
Athenians, the poet Alcaeus took to flight, and saved himself, but
lost his arms, which fell into the hands of the conquerors. They hung
them up in the temple of Minerva at Sigeum; and Alcaeus made a
poem, describing his misadventure to his friend Melanippus, and sent
it to him at Mytilene. The Mytilenaeans and Athenians were
reconciled by Periander, the son of Cypselus, who was chosen by both
parties as arbiter - he decided that they should each retain that of
which they were at the time possessed; and Sigeum passed in this way
under the dominion of Athens.
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