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[5] Alexander treated the Milesians kindly but sold all the rest as slaves.1 Since the naval force was now useless and entailed great expense, he dismissed the fleet with the exception of a few ships which he employed for the transport of his siege engines. Among these was the Athenian contingent of twenty ships.2

1 Plut. Alexander 17.1; Arrian. 1.18.3-19.6.

2 Arrian. 1.20.1. Naval operations were resumed six months later under the command of Hegelochus and Amphoterus (Curtius 3.1.19).

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