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And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules. And with them there came thirty ships.
There was a time when probably all the AEgean islands were Phoenician possessions, or at any rate acknowledged Phoenician influence, and Siphnus gave its gold, its silver, and its lead, Cythera its shell-fish, Paros its marble, Melos its sulphur and its alum, Nisyrus its millstones, and the islands generally their honey, to increase the wealth and advance the commercial interests of their Phoenician masters.
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