Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1, chapter 15

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As soon as Gyges came to the throne, he too, like others, led an army into the lands of Miletus and Smyrna; and he took the city of Colophon. But as he did nothing else great in his reign of thirty-eight years, I shall say no more of him, and shall speak instead of Ardys son of Gyges, who succeeded him. He took Priene and invaded the country of Miletus; and it was while he was monarch of Sardis that the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into Asia, and took Sardis, all but the acropolis.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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Commentary references to this page (2):
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.28
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 11.14
Cross-references to this page (10):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CIMME´RII
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), E´PHESUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PRIE´NE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SCY´THIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TRERES
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter VI
- Smith's Bio, Ardys
- Smith's Bio, Idanthyrsus
- Smith's Bio, Ly'gdamis
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- LSJ, Κιμμέριοι
- LSJ, ἐξαν-ίστημι
- LSJ, ἐπί
- LSJ, ἦθος
- LSJ, μνήμ-η
- LSJ, νομ-άς
- LSJ, τυ^ρανν-εύω

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