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The Pedaseans were at length taken, and when Harpagus led his army into the plain of Xanthos [29.35,36.3833] (Perseus) Xanthus , the Lycians came out to meet him, and showed themselves courageous fighting few against many; but being beaten and driven into the city, they gathered their wives and children and goods and servants into the acropolis, and then set the whole acropolis on fire.
The Pedaseans were at length taken, and when Harpagus led his army into the plain of Xanthos [29.35,36.3833] (Perseus) Xanthus , the Lycians came out to meet him, and showed themselves courageous fighting few against many; but being beaten and driven into the city, they gathered their wives and children and goods and servants into the acropolis, and then set the whole acropolis on fire.
[2] Then they swore great oaths to each other, and sallying out fell fighting, all the men of
Xanthos [29.35,36.3833] (Perseus)
Xanthus
.
[3] Of the
Xanthians who claim now to be
Lycians the greater number, all except eighty households, are of foreign descent; these eighty families as it happened were away from the city at that time, and thus survived. So
Harpagus gained
Xanthos [29.35,36.3833] (Perseus)
Xanthus
, and
Caunus [28.6333,36.8333] (Perseus)
Caunus
too in a somewhat similar manner, the
Caunians following for the most part the example of the
Lycians.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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