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After they had remained in the villages eight days, they went on the river Phasis. Here they passed four days and then made their way through the territory of the Chaoi1 and the Phasians. When the natives attacked them, they defeated them in battle, slaying great numbers of them, seized their farms, which abounded in provisions, and spent fifteen days on them.

1 Probably the Taochians of Xen. Anab. 4.6.5.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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