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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XVII, Chapter 24 (search)
ur that he bestowed on this woman. For straightway all the
cities sent missions and presented the king with golden crowns and promised to co-operate with
him in everything.Alexander encamped near the city and set in
motion an active and formidable siege.Arrian. 1.20.5-23.6. Diodorus omits Alexander's abortive attack on
Myndus (Arrian. 1.20.5-7), and his narrative is told rather
from the Persian than from the Macedonian side (W. W. Tarn, Alexander the
Great, 2 (1948), 73 f.).
At first he made continued assaults on the walls with relays
of attackers and spent whole days in active fighting. Later he brought up all sorts of engines
of war, filled in the trenches in front of the city with the aid of sheds to protect the
workers, and rocked the towers and the curtains between them with his battering rams. Whenever
he overthrew a portion of the wall, he attempted by hand-to-hand fighting to force an entry
into the city over the ru