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So the armies met in the plain, wide and bare, that is before the city of Sardis: the Hyllus and other rivers flow across it and run violently together into the greatest of them, which is called Hermus (this flows from the mountain sacred to the Mother Dindymene1 and empties into the sea near the city of Phocaea).

1 Identified with the Phrygian and Lydian goddess Cybele.

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