About 283/2 BCE the Diadoch Lysimachus, master of Ionia, answered Samos in a long-running boundary quarrel with Priene over the Batinetis — the strip of mainland opposite the island. Both cities sent envoys; the king's letter opens with a remarkable judicial candour: 'if we had foreseen that you had held this land for so many years, we should not at all have taken up the case; but as it is, we suppose the dispute to have arisen entirely within a recent time.' He then rehearses the rival histories. The Prienians argued their original possession 'from the histories': that after Lygdamis the Kimmerian invaded Ionia the Samians fled to the island, the mainland lay in others' hands for years, and when the Samians returned by force Bias of Priene made peace and the settlers withdrew. The Samians countered with ancestral title, conceding the flight to the island but insisting that a thousand Samians later returned and divided the land into lots. Then the stone breaks — exactly where the verdict stood. Which way Lysimachus decided cannot be recovered: Waddington and Lenschau read the award for Samos, Hicks for Priene. This edition is the pair to the Lysimachus-Priene letter (ed.#9, OGIS 11): the same king writing to both sides of one boundary, a Hellenistic arbitration read from both shores.约公元前283/2年，统御伊奥尼亚之继业者吕西马科斯就萨摩斯与普里耶涅围绕巴提涅提斯（岛屿对岸之大陆地带）之久争，答复萨摩斯。两城各遣使节；王函以非凡之司法坦率开篇：「若我等早知你等持此地已历如许岁年，则断不会受理此案；然今观之，我等以为此争实起于晚近。」继而陈述双方史述。普里耶涅人援「史册」主张其原有之据：辛梅里安人吕格达米斯入侵伊奥尼亚后，萨摩斯人逃往岛上，大陆数年易手；及萨摩斯人以武力归返，普里耶涅之比阿斯遣来媾和，移居者乃退。萨摩斯人则以祖传之权相抗，虽认曾逃岛，然坚称后有千名萨摩斯人归来、分地为份。继而碑石断裂 —— 恰当判决所在。吕西马科斯如何裁断已无可复原：瓦丁顿与连绍读为萨摩斯胜，希克斯读为普里耶涅胜。本评注本乃吕西马科斯致普里耶涅函（第9号，OGIS 11）之对偶：同一国王致一边界之争议两方，一桩可由两岸阅读之希腊化仲裁。