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Folio 195r
…guarded the rear, laying claim to valor, and having the reputation of being very brave. Having pretended to retreat, they [the Scythians, i.e.] remained there, not shirking the delay, but having pitched camp as inconspicuously as possible, and bivouacked not far from the enemy, so that the stratagem could be got ready at short notice; and they refrained from lighting fires by night, out of fear that they might be visible. But when they thought that the Thracians had become firmly convinced of their retreat (and a certain amount of seditious feeling towards the leading citizens, as tends to happen in a crowd, had caused the watch to be neglected, and some of them were busy enjoying themselves, supposing that they had brought the war to an end and <won a> very brilliant victory), they [the Scythians] decided to storm the city. And in addition [i.e. to their being unobserved by those inside the city] a factor conducive to treachery led them on. And someone escaping from the lower city, so it was said [later, i.e.], either out of enmity towards one of the magistrates, or in hope of a large reward as well - this man reported the situation in the city to Cniva, and made the Scythians all the more inclined to undertake the attack, promising that he would raise a <fire-> signal at the part of the fortification where it was most accessible, in accordance with what had been (?) agreed with the men sent out. (And Cniva had (?) sent out by night five men, volunteers by reason of their own eagerness and also from hope of money, to reconnoiter what had been reported and to verify the talk of treachery.) As prizes the king offered five hundred darics to the first man to climb the walls, and to the second…
Folio 194r
… message, and being dismayed by the present circumstance, they also became fearful for …. themselves (?); so it seemed best under the present circumstances to take precautions for their own protection, each as they had strength in their own forces and their allied contingent (?). And Ptolemaios the Athenian, who was commanding the Thessalians after being sent by the emperor, held the border country between Macedonia and Thessaly with a guard (this is divided by its nature, <which is> narrow and difficult to cross), while the Athenians and Boeotians advanced to Pylae [Thermopylae], since they thought this an excellent place to block the advance, and that it would not be an easy thing for the barbarians to advance into Greece below Pylae. This then was their situation. But when Ostrogouthos, the leader of the Scythians, heard that Philippopolis had been taken, and that the Scythians were holding Cniva in the highest regard, and were celebrating him in song, as is their ancestral custom when they have especially good fortune and success in war, whereas they were holding himself in less esteem, accusing him of cowardice and failure in his tactics, he thought it unbearable not to make amends to the Scythian cause by some notable achievement; <so> setting out, he marched quickly with an army of some fifty thousand. But Decius was grieved by <his> failure to bring help and by the capture of Philippopolis...
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