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When the Paeonians learned that the Persians were coming against them, they gathered together and marched away to the sea, thinking that the Persians would attempt to attack them by that way.
When the Paeonians learned that the Persians were coming against them, they gathered together and marched away to the sea, thinking that the Persians would attempt to attack them by that way.
[2] So the
Paeonians were ready to withstand the onset of
Megabazus' army, but the
Persians, learning that the
Paeonians had gathered their forces and were guarding the coast route into their country, got guides and marched instead by the highland road. They accordingly took the
Paeonians unaware and won entrance into their cities, which were left without men, and finding these empty at their attack, they easily gained them.
[3] The
Paeonians, learning that their towns had been taken, straightway disbanded, each going his own way, and surrendered themselves to the
Persians. Thus of the
Paeonians the
Siriopaeones and
Paeoplae and all who lived as far as the
Prasiad lake were taken away from their homes and led into
Asia (continent)Asia.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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