And they took the lower city, which was deserted, and then they found that there were still a few Athenians left in the temple, either stewards of the temple or needy persons, who had barred the entrance to the Acropolis with doors and with a palisade of timber and endeavoured to defend themselves against the attacks of the enemy, being men who had not gone out to Salamis partly because of their poverty, and also because they thought that they alone had discovered the meaning of the oracle which the Pythian prophetess had uttered to them, namely that the "bulwark of wood" should be impregnable, and supposed that this was in fact the safe refuge according to the oracle, and not the ships.
Eta hemengo hiri hustuaz jabetu ziren, athenastar gutxi batzuk besterik ez zituztelarik aurkitu bertan (santutegiko altxorzainak eta zenbait jende behartsu); hauek akropolia zurezko ate eta enborren bidez gotortu zuten, erasotzaileari horrela aurre egiteko asmotan, eta Salaminara ez baziren joan, batetik behartsuak zirelako eta, bestetik, Pythiak iragarritako orakuluaren esangura-zurezko murrua hartuezina izango zela-beraiek bakarrik ulertu zutela uste zutelako izan zen;