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Recovering his forces, Alexander led them down through Lydia and took over the city of the Sardians with its citadels and, what is more, the treasures stored therein, for Mithrines the satrap surrendered them without resistance.1

1 Plut. Alexander 17.1. The account of Arrian 1.17-18.2 is fuller.

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