The Histories · 2.157

but as for Psammetichos, he was king over Egypt for four-and-fifty years, of which for thirty years save one he was sitting before Azotos, a great city of Syria, besieging it, until at last he took it: and this Azotos of all cities about which we have knowledge held out for the longest time under a siege.

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