Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers.

I am still on my lonesome and loving answering your questions.

I'm Murray Dam. I'm the Ancient Warfare magazine assistant editor.

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Now, this one is what they might term as a cracking question.

When do ancient sources agree, but you call foul?

Well, that's the kind of meat and drink of many ancient historians, obviously.

And there are, of course, some sources where our source, some events in ancient history

where our sources disagree, more often than not, obviously,

they disagree. And we pull them apart or we choose one to favor for some reason over the other.

So it's actually unusual to have sources agree on something. The other case that you get,

of course, is where sources, well, there aren't sources.

There's a single source, so there isn't disagreement.

I've got two that I really want to get into the nitty gritty of, so bear with me.

The first one is it's not my favorite battle, but it's certainly, it's certainly a new battle that I've come to really enjoy.

And that's the Battle of the Sagra River.

Now, the Battle of the Sagra River is a battle which was fought at some point in the 7th or 6th century BC.

And the reasons for that become clear as we go along.

We've got four or five sources which talk about it,

and they all give us the same summary of events. Now, that summary of events is

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