but they taking note of that which had been done by Psammetichos and of the oracle, namely how it had been declared to them that whosoever of them should make libation with a bronze cup should be sole king of Egypt, recollecting, I say, the saying of the Oracle, they did not indeed deem it right to slay Psammetichos, since they found by examination that he had not done it with any forethought, but they determined to strip him of almost all his power and to drive him away into the fen-country, and that from the fen-country he should not hold any dealings with the rest of Egypt.
Baina haiek gogoan hartu baitzuten Psametikhok eginikoa eta orakuluak igarri ziena, hots, brontzezko edalontziaz isurpena egiten zuen beretako hura izango zela Egyptoko errege bakarra, igarpen hau gogoratu arren, ez zuten bidezkotzat jo Psametikho hiltzea, galdekatzean, inolako asmorik gabe egin zuela ikusten baitzuten, eta honi aginterik gehiena kendu ondoren, zingiretara deserriratzea ebatzi zuten eta zingiretatik mugituz, gainerako egyptoarrekin harremanak izatea galarazi.