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κατιρῶσαι, ‘consecrate,’ as a sign of submission, which was to be at once material and symbolical.


βουλεύσασθαι. Probably Phocaea was actually besieged, and these negociations took place during an interval in the siege. Harpagus' offer can hardly have been genuine, for Cyrus had refused to accept submission on terms less favourable to the Greeks (c. 141). The Phocaeans on their part were probably seeking to gain time, so as to be able to escape by sea.

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