This, then, is what the Perinthians had previously suffered at the hands of the Paeonians. Now they fought like brave men for their liberty, but Megabazus and the Persians overcame them by weight of numbers.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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