Herodotus, Histories, ed. A.D. Godley, 1.74.2

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[2] They were still warring with equal success, when it happened, at an encounter which occurred in the sixth year, that during the battle the day was suddenly turned to night. Thales of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus had foretold this loss of daylight to the Ionians, fixing it within the year in which the change did indeed happen.¹

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[2] διαφέρουσι δέ σφι ἐπὶ ἴσης τὸν πόλεμον τῷ ἕκτῳ ἔτεϊ συμβολῆς γενομένης συνήνεικε ὥστε τῆς μάχης συνεστεώσης τὴν ἡμέρην ἐξαπίνης νύκτα γενέσθαι. τὴν δὲ μεταλλαγὴν ταύτην τῇ ἡμέρης Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος τοῖσι Ἴωσι προηγόρευσε ἔσεσθαι, οὖρον προθέμενος ἐνιαυτὸν τοῦτον ἐν τῷ δὴ καὶ ἐγένετο ἡ μεταβολή.

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1. All evidence, historical and astronomical, fixes the date of this eclipse as May 28, 585 B.C. There was another eclipse of the sun in Alyattes' reign, on Sept. 30, 610; but it appears that this latter was not total in Anadolu [35,39] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Asia Minor : and Pliny's mention of the phenomenon places it in the 170th year from the foundation of Rome [12.4833,41.9] (Perseus) Rome . Thales died at an advanced age in 548 B.C.

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