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But those near the Pangaean1 mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never subdued at all by Megabazus. He did in fact try to take the lake-dwellers2 and did so in the following manner. There is set in the midst of the lake a platform made fast on tall piles, to which one bridge gives a narrow passage from the land.

1 East of the Strymon.

2 Dwellings of a similar kind have been found in North Italy, Ireland, and other parts of Western Europe.

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