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The text is plainly faulty. Most editors follow Valckenaer in marking a lacuna after τελευτᾷ. Stein more ingeniously suggests that the words τοὺς μὲν λιποστρατίης κτλ. originally followed ch. 26, with which they are connected both in sense and grammar (cf. vi. 122); the author then added οἱ μὲν δὴ Λήμνιοι . . . τελευτᾷ as a marginal note (cf. ix. 83); finally, when these got thrust into the text, the gloss αἰτίη . . . κατεστρέφετο was inserted to mend the damaged construction. But this betrays its origin by its inadequacy. In any case it is clear that the last lines of this chapter must be connected with ch. 26. Lycaretus had hoped to succeed his brother Maeandrius at Samos (iii. 143), but the Persians had set up Syloson (iii. 144), whose son was now tyrant there (iv. 138).

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