In the spring of the third year of campaign the army laid siege to the citadel of Bethar, an eagle's nest where Simon and his partisans held out for nearly a year against the slow tortures of hunger, thirst, and despair, and where the Son of the Star saw his followers perish one by one but still would not surrender.
Kanpainaren hirugarren urteko udaberrian, armadak setioa ezarri zion Bethar-eko gotorlekuari, benetako arranohabia berau, non Simonek eta bere partisauek urtebete baino areago eutsi baitzieten gosearen, egarriaren eta etsimenaren tortura astitsuei, eta non Izarraren Semeak bananbanan ikusi baitzituen hiltzen bere lagun leialak, erauki-hitzik esan gabe, haatik.