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[4] but Alexander lashed triremes together, mounted his various siege engines upon them, and overthrew the wall for the space of a plethron.1 Through this breach the Macedonians burst into the city,

1 The distances are seven and one-half feet, fifteen feet, and one hundred feet respectively.

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