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[3] 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.1

1 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.).

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