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Antiochus Takes Sardis
Antiochus encouraged the attempt and urged Lagoras
to carry it out. The latter promised to do his best, and
desired the king to join with him Theodotus the Aetolian, and
Dionysius the commander of his bodyguard, with orders to
devote them to assist him in carrying out the intended interprise. The king at once granted his request, and these officers
agreed to undertake it: and having held a consultation on the
whole subject, they waited for a night on which there should
be no moon just before daybreak. Such a night having
arrived, on the day on which they intended to act, an hour
before sunset, they selected from the whole army fifteen of
the strongest and most courageous men to carry the ladders,
and also to mount with them and share in the daring attempt.
After these they selected thirty others, to remain in reserve at
a certain distance; that, as soon as they had themselves climbed
over the walls, and come to the nearest gate, the thirty might
come up to it fr
The Sack of Sardis
When Lagoras and his party had made all their
The town of Sardis entered and sacked.
preparations, as soon as the moon set, they
came stealthily to the foot of the cliffs with
their scaling ladders, and ensconced themselves
under a certain overhanging rock. When day broke, and
the picket as usual broke up from that spot; and the king
in the ordinary way told off some men to take their usual
posts, and led the main body on to the hippodrome and
drew them up; at first no one suSardis entered and sacked.
preparations, as soon as the moon set, they
came stealthily to the foot of the cliffs with
their scaling ladders, and ensconced themselves
under a certain overhanging rock. When day broke, and
the picket as usual broke up from that spot; and the king
in the ordinary way told off some men to take their usual
posts, and led the main body on to the hippodrome and
drew them up; at first no one suspected what was going on.
But when two ladders were fixed, and Dionysius led the way
up one, and Lagoras up the other, there was excitement and a
stir throughout the camp. For while the climbing party were
not visible to the people in the town, or to Achaeus in the
citadel, because of the beetling brow of the rock, their bold
and adventurous ascent was in full view of the camp; which
accordingly was divided in feeling between astonishment at
the strangeness of the spectacle, and a nervous horro
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 11, line 146 (search)
Abhorring riches he inhabited
the woods and fields, and followed Pan who dwells
always in mountain-caves: but still obtuse
remained, from which his foolish mind again,
by an absurd decision, harmed his life.
He followed Pan up to the lofty mount
Tmolus, which from its great height looks far
across the sea. Steep and erect it stands
between great Sardis and the small Hypaepa.
While Pan was boasting there to mountain nymphs
of his great skill in music, and while he
was warbling a gay tune upon the reeds,
cemented with soft wax, in his conceit
he dared to boast to them how he despised
Apollo's music when compared with his—.
At last to prove it, he agreed to stand
against Apollo in a contest which
it was agreed should be decided by
Tmolus as their umpire.
This old god
sat down on his own mountain, and first eased
his ears of many mountain growing trees,
oak leaves were wreathed upon his azure hair
and acorns from his hollow temples hung.
First to the Shepherd-god Tmolus spoke:
“My judg
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK II, CHAPTER VIII: METHODS OF BUILDING WALLS (search)
T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 1, scene 1 (search)