Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Azotus” in book 2, chapter 157, section 1 of Herodotus, The Histories:
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Psammetichus ruled Egypt for fifty-three years, twenty-nine of which he spent before Azotus, a great city in Syria, besieging it until he took it. Azotus held out against a siege longer than any city of which we know.
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