Now Gyges also, 17 as soon as he became king, led an army against Miletos and Smyrna, and he took the lower town of Colophon: 18 but no other great deed did he do in his reign, which lasted eight-and-thirty years, therefore we will pass him by with no more mention than has already been made, 15. and I will speak now of Ardys the son of Gyges, who became king after Gyges. He took Priene and made an invasion against Miletos; and while he was ruling over Sardis, the Cimmerians driven from their abodes by the nomad Scythians came to Asia and took Sardis except the citadel.