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HISTORY Or CARIA. 65
setting fire to the town; but to spare such of the
citizens as remained in then- houses.
When day broke, seeing that the two citadels were
still occupied by the Persians and mercenaries, he
decided on leaving them to be reduced by blockade.
He then razed the remainder of the city to the
ground, leaving a force of 3,000 infantry and 200
cavalry, under Ptolemy, to besiege the citadels and
defend Caria, in which satrapy Ada was reinstated.p
Shortly after this, Ptolemy, joining forces with
Asander, who had been intrusted by Alexander with
the satrapy of Lydia, defeated Othontopates in a
great battle. By this victory he obtained posses-
sion of the citadels at Halicarnassus, after which
the other cities held by Othontopates—Myndus,
Gaunus, Thera, Callipolis, Triopium and Cos—all
fell into the hands of the Macedonians.4
After these events, the name of Ada appears no
more in history. We do not know how long she
continued to rule in the satrapy which had been
restored to her; but it is certain that she was
the last representative of the dynasty of Hekatom-
nus, and, in the general partition of the empire
of Alexander, B.C. 323, Caria was assigned to
Asander/
P Arrian, i. 20—23. 1 Ibid. ii. 5.
r Dexippus, ap. Phot. Fragm. Hist. Graac. ed. Miiller, iii. p. 668,
Fr. 1. Diodor. xviii. 3, 39. Curtius, x. 10. Justin, xiii. 4. Diodorus
writes Cassander, in which he is followed by Curtius and Justin J
but this is generally admitted to be a mistake. See Boeckh, C. I. No.
105; of. Eos. 2691, 2692, the latter of which inscriptions probably
refers to Asander, styled here satrap under Philip Arrhidseus.—
Droysen, Nachfolger, p. 45.
setting fire to the town; but to spare such of the
citizens as remained in then- houses.
When day broke, seeing that the two citadels were
still occupied by the Persians and mercenaries, he
decided on leaving them to be reduced by blockade.
He then razed the remainder of the city to the
ground, leaving a force of 3,000 infantry and 200
cavalry, under Ptolemy, to besiege the citadels and
defend Caria, in which satrapy Ada was reinstated.p
Shortly after this, Ptolemy, joining forces with
Asander, who had been intrusted by Alexander with
the satrapy of Lydia, defeated Othontopates in a
great battle. By this victory he obtained posses-
sion of the citadels at Halicarnassus, after which
the other cities held by Othontopates—Myndus,
Gaunus, Thera, Callipolis, Triopium and Cos—all
fell into the hands of the Macedonians.4
After these events, the name of Ada appears no
more in history. We do not know how long she
continued to rule in the satrapy which had been
restored to her; but it is certain that she was
the last representative of the dynasty of Hekatom-
nus, and, in the general partition of the empire
of Alexander, B.C. 323, Caria was assigned to
Asander/
P Arrian, i. 20—23. 1 Ibid. ii. 5.
r Dexippus, ap. Phot. Fragm. Hist. Graac. ed. Miiller, iii. p. 668,
Fr. 1. Diodor. xviii. 3, 39. Curtius, x. 10. Justin, xiii. 4. Diodorus
writes Cassander, in which he is followed by Curtius and Justin J
but this is generally admitted to be a mistake. See Boeckh, C. I. No.
105; of. Eos. 2691, 2692, the latter of which inscriptions probably
refers to Asander, styled here satrap under Philip Arrhidseus.—
Droysen, Nachfolger, p. 45.