§16.33.1πεσόντος γὰρ τοῦ διατειχίσματος, ἐπιβάντες ἐπὶ τὸ πτῶμα κατὰ τοὺς ὅρκους διεμάχοντο τοῖς πολεμίοις οὕτω τετολμηκότως ὥστε τὸν Φίλιππον, καίπερ ἐκ διαδοχῆς προβαλόμενον τοὺς Μακεδόνας ἕως νυκτός, τέλος ἀποστῆναι τῆς μάχης, δυσελπιστήσαντα καὶ περὶ τῆς ὅλης ἐπιβολῆς. §16.33.2οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐπὶ τοὺς θνήσκοντας τῶν πολεμίων ἐπιβαίνοντες ἠγωνίζοντο μετὰ παραστάσεως οἱ προκινδυνεύοντες τῶν Ἀβυδηνῶν, οὐδὲ τοῖς ξίφεσι καὶ τοῖς δόρασιν αὐτοῖς ἐμάχοντο παραβόλως, §16.33.3ἀλλʼ ὅτε τι τούτων ἀχρειωθὲν ἀδυνατήσειεν ἢ μετὰ βίας προοῖντʼ ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν, συμπλεκόμενοι τοῖς Μακεδόσιν οὓς μὲν ἀνέτρεπον ὁμοῦ τοῖς ὅπλοις, ὧν δὲ συντρίβοντες τὰς σαρίσας αὐτοῖς τοῖς ἐκείνων κλάσμασιν ἐκ διαλήψεως τύπτοντες αὐτῶν ταῖς ἐπιδορατίσι τὰ πρόσωπα καὶ τοὺς γυμνοὺς τόπους εἰς ὁλοσχερῆ διατροπὴν ἦγον. §16.33.4ἐπιγενομένης δὲ τῆς νυκτὸς καὶ διαλυθείσης τῆς μάχης, τῶν μὲν πλείστων τεθνεώτων ἐπὶ τοῦ πτώματος, τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ κόπου καὶ τῶν τραυμάτων ἀδυνατούντων, συναγαγόντες ὀλίγους τινὰς τῶν πρεσβυτέρων Γλαυκίδης καὶ Θεόγνητος κατέβαλον τὸ σεμνὸν καὶ θαυμάσιον τῆς τῶν πολιτῶν προαιρέσεως διὰ τὰς ἰδίας ἐλπίδας· §16.33.5ἐβουλεύσαντο γὰρ τὰ μὲν τέκνα καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας ζωγρεῖν, ἅμα δὲ τῷ φωτὶ τοὺς ἱερεῖς καὶ τὰς ἱερείας ἐκπέμπειν μετὰ στεμμάτων πρὸς τὸν Φίλιππον, δεησομένους καὶ παραδιδόντας αὐτῷ τὴν πόλιν.
For when the inner wall fell, they mounted the ruins and, in accordance with their oaths, fought against the enemy so daringly that Philip, although he had put forward his Macedonians in relays until nightfall, finally desisted from the battle, having lost hope also for the success of his entire enterprise.\n For not only did the foremost fighters of the Abydenians, stepping over the dying among the enemy, struggle with desperate resolve, nor did they fight recklessly with their swords and spears alone;\n but whenever any of these weapons became useless and failed them, or was violently wrested from their hands, they closed with the Macedonians, overturning some together with their armor, while shattering the sarissas of others and, firmly grasping the very fragments of those weapons, they struck their faces and exposed parts with the butt-ends, throwing them into complete rout.\n But when night came on and the battle was broken off, with most of them dead upon the ruins, and the survivors incapacitated by fatigue and wounds, Glaucides and Theognetus, having gathered together a few of the elders, cast down the noble and wonderful resolve of the citizens for the sake of their own personal hopes;\n for they resolved to keep the children and women alive, and at daybreak to send out the priests and priestesses with suppliant fillets to Philip, to entreat him and surrender the city to him.