War against Lyctus
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The <entity_3> was an internal conflict fought from around <entity_8> to about 216 BC between two coalitions of Cretan city-states, led by <entity_4> and <entity_2> respectively. The prelude to the conflict in <entity_10> was the commercial <entity_11> between the cities of <entity_5> and Byzantium about the toll introduced by the Byzantines for all ships passing through the Bosporus on their way to the Pontus Euxinus. Meanwhile in <entity_10> the allied cities of <entity_4> and <entity_6> had gained control of the whole island, except for the Spartan colony of <entity_7> which alone resisted. When the Rhodian navarch Polemocles returned from the <entity_11> against Byzantium, the Cnossians thought that he could be helpful to their efforts against <entity_7>. Thus the cities of <entity_2> and <entity_9>, along with some other communities, defected from the Cnossians and allied with the Lyttians. In <entity_6> the citizens were divided on the question of alliance and a civil <entity_11> broke out in the city. Meanwhile, tensions on the mainland had risen between the <entity_1> and the <entity_0>. Generally, the <entity_11> went favourably for the enemies of <entity_4>. As a side effect of the conflict, Cretan mercenaries (the famed archers and the so-called Neocretans) are recorded all over the Hellenistic world, although none of the leaders (Cnopias of Allaria, Philon the Cnossian, Eurylochus of <entity_10>, Zelys the Gortynian at Raphia 217 BC; Lagoras, Kambylos and Bolis at the siege of Sardis 215/13 BC) can be traced directly to the civil <entity_11>.
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