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- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-01
Harpagus besieges Phocaea and offers mild terms of surrender, but the Phocaeans request a day's respite and use the time to escape by sea with their families and possessions, leaving the empty city to the Persians.
τὸ μὲν δὴ τεῖχος τοῖσι Φωκαιεῦσι τρόπῳ τοιῷδε ἐξεποιήθη. ὁ δὲ Ἅρπαγος ὡς ἐπήλασε τὴν στρατιήν, ἐπολιόρκεε αὐτούς, προισχόμενος ἔπεα ὥς οἱ καταχρᾷ1 εἰ βούλονται Φωκαιέες προμαχεῶνα ἕνα μοῦνον τοῦ τείχεος ἐρεῖψαι καὶ οἴκημα ἓν κατιρῶσαι.
So the wall of the Phocaeans was built in this manner. And Harpagus, when he had led his army against them, besieged them, proposing terms that it would satisfy him if the Phocaeans were willing to demolish only one battlement of the wall and consecrate one dwelling.
οἱ δὲ Φωκαιέες περιημεκτέοντες τῇ δουλοσύνη ἔφασαν θέλειν βουλεύσασθαι ἡμέρην μίαν καὶ ἔπειτα ὑποκρινέεσθαι·
The Phocaeans, however, being indignant at slavery, said they wished to deliberate for one day and then give their answer;
ἐν ᾧ δὲ βουλεύονται αὐτοί, ἀπαγαγεῖν ἐκεῖνον ἐκέλευον τὴν στρατιὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχεος. ὁ δʼ Ἅρπαγος ἔφη εἰδέναι μὲν εὖ τὰ ἐκεῖνοι μέλλοιεν ποιέειν, ὅμως δὲ σφι παριέναι βουλεύσασθαι. ἐν ᾧ ὦν ὁ Ἅρπαγος ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχεος ἀπήγαγε τὴν στρατιήν, οἱ Φωκαιέες ἐν τούτῳ κατασπάσαντες τὰς πεντηκοντέρους, ἐσθέμενοι τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ ἔπιπλα πάντα, πρὸς δὲ καὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα τὰ ἐν τῶν ἱρῶν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἀναθήματα, χωρὶς ὅ τι χαλκὸς ἢ λίθος ἢ γραφὴ ἦν,2 τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πάντα ἐσθέντες καὶ αὐτοὶ εἰσβάντες ἔπλεον ἐπὶ Χίου. τὴν δὲ Φωκαίην ἐρημωθεῖσαν ἀνδρῶν ἔσχον οἱ Πέρσαι.
and while they were deliberating, they urged him to withdraw his army from the wall. Harpagus said that he knew well what they were going to do, but nevertheless he permitted them to deliberate. So while Harpagus withdrew his army from the wall, the Phocaeans in the meantime launched their fifty-oared ships, and putting on board their children, wives, and all their goods, and furthermore the statues from the temples and the other votive offerings, except what was made of bronze or stone or was a painting, but having put on board everything else and having embarked themselves, they sailed for Chios. The Persians took possession of Phocaea, now deserted of men.
- 1.164.1ὡς οἱ καταχρᾷ
The conjunction ὡς introduces indirect speech. οἱ is the dative of the third-person singular pronoun, referring indirectly to the subject of the main clause (Harpagus himself). καταχρᾷ is the present indicative of the Ionic impersonal verb καταχράει (to be sufficient).
- 1.164.3χωρὶς ὅ τι χαλκὸς ἢ λίθος ἢ γραφὴ ἦν
The prepositive χωρίς (except for) governs the relative clause ὅ τι... ἦν (whatever was...). This indicates that only heavy bronze or stone statues and immovable artworks like wall paintings were left behind.