The Histories · 1.15

and I will speak now of Ardys the son of Gyges, who became king after Gyges. He took Priene and made an invasion against Miletos; and while he was ruling over Sardis, the Kimmerians driven from their abodes by the nomad Scythians came to Asia and took Sardis except the citadel.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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