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So when he saw the complete destruction of such a city, so that it seemed no man had ever dwelt in it, he immediately rebuilt it and restored it to its former state, and recalled the inhabitants from everywhere, as many of the original population as were still safe, and summoning many from foreign lands, he settled them there and restored its former adornment. But learning about the Turks and having discovered that they were then staying near Lampe, he separated a portion of the forces under his command and sent them out against them. And they, having overtaken them and joined a fierce battle with them, were immediately victorious; and they treated the Turks so cruelly as to even throw their infants into boiling cauldrons. And they killed many and, leading captives, returned rejoicing to Eumathios. But the surviving Turks, dressing in black and wishing to represent their misfortunes to their kinsmen by their very garments, went through all the land occupied by the Turks, wailing mournfully and recounting the terrible things that had befallen them, and by their clothes moving everyone to pity and inciting them to vengeance. 14.1.5 Eumathios, having taken Philadelphia, was rejoicing at the success of his undertaking. But a certain chief satrap named Asan, who held Cappadocia, treating the natives as if they were bought slaves, having learned what had happened to the aforementioned Turks, gathered his own forces and summoned many from elsewhere, so that the army under him amounted to twenty-four thousand men, and went out against him. But Eumathios, being a formidable man, as has been said, did not occupy Philadelphia carelessly, nor did he relax once he was inside its walls, but sent out scouts everywhere and, so that they might not be neglectful, he sent others after them and stirred them up to vigilance so that they kept watch all night and scanned the streets and the plains. 14.1.6 So one of these, seeing the Turkish army from afar, ran to him and reported it. And he, being sensible and quick to see what was necessary and to bring his deliberations to a conclusion in no time, since he knew he did not have sufficient forces against so many, immediately ordered all the gates of this city to be secured, and that no one at all be allowed to go up on the wall, nor indeed to shout at all, nor for flutes or lyres to sound; and in short, he put the city in such a state that it seemed completely uninhabited to passers-by. But Asan, reaching Philadelphia, surrounded the walls with his army and remained for three days. But since no one appeared peeking from above, and the gates were secured from within, and he had with him no city-takers nor stone-throwing engines, thinking that Eumathios's army was small and for this reason did not dare to sally forth, judging those within to be very weak, he turned to another path, having utterly despised him. So he detached ten thousand of his own army and sent them out against Kelbianos, and others ... towards Smyrna and Nymphaion, and the rest towards Chliara and Pergamon; and having sent them all out for plunder, he himself accompanied those going towards Smyrna .... 14.1.7 Philokales, however, having discerned Asan's plan, sent all the forces under his command against the Turks. And pursuing those who had gone toward Kelbianon, they overtook them while they were off their guard and falling upon them at daybreak, they slaughtered them without mercy; and they rescued all the captives held by them. And then they pursued the Turks who were going towards Smyrna and Nymphaion; and some, having run through both from the front and from both sides

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Τὸν γοῦν παντελῆ ἀφανισμὸν τῆς τοιαύτης θεασάμενος πόλεως, ὡς δοκεῖν μηδὲ ἄνθρωπον κατοικῆσαί ποτε ἐν αὐτῇ, παραχρῆμα ἀνῳκοδόμησέ τε καὶ εἰς τὸ πρότερον ἀποκα τέστησε σχῆμα, τούς τε ἐποίκους ἁπανταχόθεν ἀνεκαλέ σατο ὁπόσοι τέως τῶν αὐτοχθόνων ἐσῴζοντο, καὶ ἐξ ἀλλοδαπῶν πολλοὺς μεταπεμψάμενος ἐνῴκισέ τε καὶ τὸν πρότερον ἀποδεδώκει κόσμον. Πυθόμενος δὲ περὶ τῶν Τούρκων καὶ μεμαθηκὼς κατὰ τὴν Λάμπην τούτους τῷ τότε ἐνδιατρίβειν, ἀπόμοιραν τῶν ὑπ' αὐτὸν δυνάμεων ἀποδιελόμενος, ἐξέπεμψε κατ' αὐτῶν. Οἳ καὶ καταλα βόντες αὐτοὺς καὶ πόλεμον καρτερὸν μετ' αὐτῶν συνά ψαντες τὴν νικῶσαν εἶχον παραυτίκα· ἀπηνῶς δὲ τοῖς Τούρκοις τοσοῦτον ἐχρήσαντο ὡς καὶ τὰ νεογνὰ τούτων εἰς λέβητας ἐμβαλεῖν καχλάζοντας. Πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἔκτειναν καὶ ζωγρίαν ἄγοντες πρὸς τὸν Εὐμάθιον χαίροντες ἐπανῄεσαν. Οἱ δέ γε καταλειφθέντες Τοῦρκοι μελανδυτήσαντες καὶ τὰς σφῶν συμφορὰς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀμφίων παριστάναι τοῖς ὁμοφύλοις βουλόμενοι, ἅπασαν τὴν ὑπὸ τῶν Τούρκων κατεχομένην διῄεσαν χώραν γοερὸν ἀνοι μώζοντες καὶ τά σφισιν αὐτοῖς ξυμπεσόντα δεινὰ διηγού μενοι, κἀκ τῶν ἀμφίων ἅπαντας εἰς οἶκτον παρακινοῦντες καὶ πρὸς ἄμυναν ἐρεθίζοντες. 14.1.5 Ὁ δὲ Εὐμάθιος τὴν Φιλαδέλφειαν καταλαβὼν ἔχαιρεν ἐπὶ τῇ εὐτυχίᾳ τοῦ ἐγχειρήματος. Ἀρχισατράπης δέ τις Ἀσὰν τὴν κλῆσιν, ὁ τὴν Καππαδοκίαν κατέχων, τοῖς αὐτόχθοσι καθαπερεὶ ἀργυρωνήτοις χρώμενος, μεμαθηκὼς τὰ τοῖς ἤδη ῥηθεῖσι Τούρκοις ξυμπεσόντα, τὰς οἰκείας δυνάμεις ἀναλαβόμενος καὶ ἑτέρωθεν πολλοὺς μεταπεμψάμενος ὡς ἐς εἴκοσι πρὸς ταῖς τέσσαρσι χιλιάδας παραστῆναι τὸ ὑπ' αὐτὸν στρά τευμα, κατ' αὐτοῦ ἔξεισι. ∆εινὸς δὲ ὢν ἀνὴρ ὁ Εὐμάθιος, ὡς εἴρηται, οὐκ ἀμελῶς τὴν Φιλαδέλφειαν ᾤκει οὐδ' ἀνα πεπτώκει εἴσω τῶν ταύτης τειχῶν γεγονώς, ἀλλὰ σκοπούς τε ἁπανταχῆ ἔπεμπε καί, ἵνα μὴ ἀμελοῖεν, αὐτοῖς προσέ πεμπεν ἄλλους καὶ πρὸς ἐγρήγορσιν ἀνηρέθιζεν ὥστε παννύχους ἐγρηγορέναι καὶ τὰς ἀμφόδους καὶ τὰς πεδιά δας περιαθρεῖν. 14.1.6 Τούτων οὖν τις πόρρωθεν τὸ τουρκι κὸν θεασάμενος στράτευμα δρομαῖος αὐτῷ προσελθὼν ἀπαγγέλλει. Ὁ δὲ φρενήρης ὢν καὶ ὀξὺς τὸ δέον συνιδεῖν καὶ ἐν ἀσκέπτῳ χρόνῳ πέρας τοῖς λογισμοῖς διδόναι, ἐπεὶ μὴ ἀποχρώσας πρὸς τοσαύτας ἔχειν ἐγνώκει δυνάμεις, παραχρῆμα ἁπάσας τὰς πύλας ταυτησὶ τῆς πόλεως ἀσφαλισθῆναι ἐκέλευε, καὶ μηδένα τὸ παράπαν ἐς τὸ τεῖχος συγχωρεῖσθαι ἀνιέναι μήτε μὴν κραυγάζειν ὅλως μήτε αὐλοὺς ἢ κιθάρας ἠχεῖν· καὶ ἁπλῶς ἐν τοιούτῳ σχήματι τὴν πόλιν κατεστήσατο ὡς πάντη ἀοίκητον δοκεῖν τοῖς διερχομένοις. Ὁ δὲ Ἀσὰν καταλαβὼν τὴν Φιλαδέλφειαν τῷ οἰκείῳ περιζώσας τὰ τείχη στρατεύματι ἐπὶ τρισὶ παρέμεινεν ἡμέραις. Ὡς δὲ οὐδεὶς ἄνωθεν προκύπ των ἐφαίνετο, αἱ δὲ πύλαι τῶν ἐντὸς εἶχον ἀσφάλειαν, ἑλεπόλεις δὲ οὐ παρῆσαν αὐτῷ οὐδὲ πετροβόλα ὄργανα, νομίσας ὀλίγον εἶναι τὸ τοῦ Εὐμαθίου στράτευμα καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μηδὲ ἀποθαρρεῖν τὴν ἐξέλευσιν, πολλὴν ἀσθένειαν καταψηφισάμενος τῶν ἐντὸς ἄλλην ἀτραπὸν ἐτράπετο καταπεφρονηκὼς αὐτοῦ παντάπασι. ∆έκα γοῦν χιλιάδας τοῦ ἰδίου στρατεύματος διελὼν κατὰ τοῦ Κελβιανοῦ ἐξα πέστειλεν, ἑτέρας δὲ ... ὡς πρὸς Σμύρνην καὶ τὸ Νύμ φαιον, τὰς δέ γε ἐπιλοίπους πρὸς τὰ Χλιαρὰ καὶ τὴν Πέρ γαμον· ἅπαντας δὲ εἰς προνομὰς ἀποστείλας συνείπετο καὶ αὐτὸς τοῖς πρὸς τὴν Σμύρνην .... ἀπερχομένοις. 14.1.7 Ὁ μέντοι Φιλοκάλης, διαγνοὺς τὸ τοῦ Ἀσὰν ἐπιχείρημα, ἁπάσας τὰς ὑπ' αὐτὸν δυνάμεις κατὰ τῶν Τούρκων ἀπέστειλεν. Οἱ καὶ διώκοντες τοὺς πρὸς τὸ Κελβιανὸν ἀπελθόντας ἀπεριμερίμνως καταλαμβάνουσι καὶ ἐπεισπε σόντες τούτοις αὐγαζούσης ἡμέρας ἀφειδῶς κατέσφαττον· τοὺς δὲ παρ' αὐτῶν κατεχομένους δορυαλώτους ἐρρύσαντο ἅπαντας. Κἄπειτα τοὺς πρὸς τὴν Σμύρνην καὶ τὸ Νύμ φαιον ἀπερχομένους Τούρκους ἐδίωξαν· διεκδραμόντες δὲ καί τινες ἀπό τε τοῦ ἔμπροσθεν μέρους καὶ ἐξ ἑκατέρων