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Now when the Persians heard that the Greeks were at the Hellespont, they had come in from the neighboring towns and assembled at this same Sestus, seeing that it was the strongest walled place in that region. Among them there was a Persian named Oeobazus from Cardia, and he had carried the equipment of the bridges there. Sestus was held1 by the Aeolians of the country, but with him were Persians and a great multitude of their allies.

1 At the western end of the bay of Adramyttium.

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