Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 101

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τὸ δὲ μὴ λεηλατῆσαι ἑλόντας σφέας τὴν πόλιν ἔσχε τόδε. ἦσαν ἐν τῇσι Σάρδισι οἰκίαι αἱ μὲν πλεῦνες καλάμιναι, ὅσαι δ᾽ αὐτέων καὶ πλίνθιναι ἦσαν, καλάμου εἶχον τὰς ὀροφάς: τουτέων δὴ μίαν τῶν τις στρατιωτέων ὡς ἐνέπρησε, αὐτίκα ἀπ᾽ οἰκίης ἐπ᾽ οἰκίην ἰὸν τὸ πῦρ ἐπενέμετο τὸ ἄστυ πᾶν. [2] καιομένου δὲ τοῦ ἄστεος οἱ Λυδοί τε καὶ ὅσοι Περσέων ἐνῆσαν ἐν τῇ πόλι, ἀπολαμφθέντες πάντοθεν ὥστε τὰ περιέσχατα νεμομένου τοῦ πυρός, καὶ οὐκ ἔχοντες ἐξήλυσιν ἐκ τοῦ ἄστεος, συνέρρεον ἔς τε τὴν ἀγορὴν καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν Πακτωλὸν ποταμόν, ὅς σφι ψῆγμα χρυσοῦ καταφορέων ἐκ τοῦ Τμώλου διὰ μέσης τῆς ἀγορῆς ῥέει καὶ ἔπειτα ἐς τὸν Ἕρμον ποταμὸν ἐκδιδοῖ, ὁ δὲ ἐς θάλασσαν: ἐπὶ τοῦτον δὴ τὸν Πακτωλὸν καὶ ἐς τὴν ἀγορὴν ἀθροιζόμενοι οἵ τε Λυδοὶ καὶ οἱ Πέρσαι ἠναγκάζοντο ἀμύνεσθαι. [3] οἱ δὲ Ἴωνες ὁρέοντες τοὺς μὲν ἀμυνομένους τῶν πολεμίων τοὺς δὲ σὺν πλήθεϊ πολλῷ προσφερομένους, ἐξανεχώρησαν δείσαντες πρὸς τὸ ὄρος τὸν Τμῶλον καλεόμενον, ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ ὑπὸ νύκτα ἀπαλλάσσοντο ἐπὶ τὰς νέας.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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Commentary references to this page (2):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 1384
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, 9
Cross-references to this page (13):
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, SARDIS or Sardes Turkey.
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- Harper's, Pactōlus
- Harper's, Sardīs
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CAL´AMUS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), DOMUS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), FI´CTILE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PACTO´LUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SARDES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TMOLUS
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses of the Moods
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (19):
- LSJ, Σάρδεις
- LSJ, ἀναγκ-άζω
- LSJ, ἀπολαμβάνω
- LSJ, ἀθροίζω
- LSJ, ἔχω
- LSJ, ἐξανα-χωρέω
- LSJ, ἐξήλυ^σις
- LSJ, ἐμπίμπρημι
- LSJ, ἐπινέμ-ω
- LSJ, κάλα^μος
- LSJ, κα^λάμ-ι^νος
- LSJ, καταφορ-έω
- LSJ, λεηλ-α^τέω
- LSJ, μή
- LSJ, νέμω
- LSJ, περιέσχα^τα
- LSJ, πλίνθ-ι^νος
- LSJ, προσφέρω
- LSJ, συρρέω

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