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πόλιν. This is clearly identical with τὸ ἄστυ (§ 1 ad fin.), ‘the lower city.’ Hence the same meaning must be given to ἐν τῇ πόλι (§ 2 ad init.), though Stein and Macan there construe ‘Acropolis’. There is no reason to believe that there were Lydians in the Acropolis, or that all the Persians were within its walls. Nor could a fire in the lower city compel the garrison of the Acropolis to come down to the Agora and defend themselves there.

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