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[6] but Ephialtes's men had the advantage in the battle, and he himself, who had far greater bodily strength than the rest, slew with his own hand many who traded blows with him. From the top of the recently erected replacement wall, the defenders slew many of the Macedonians with dense showers of missiles—for there had been erected a wooden tower, a hundred cubits high, which was filled with dart-hurling catapults.

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