Premise: The city was ruled in turn by the Lydians, the Persians, and the Attalid kings of Pergamum, until 133 b.c. , when Attalus III bequeathed his kingdom, and Ephesus with it, to the Romans.

Hypothesis: Attalus III died fighting the Romans, and it took a bloody battle for the Romans to seize control of the kingdom.
Relation: contradiction