Book IX, 423

Sardis, once the city of Gyges and Alyattes ; Sardis, who wast for the great king a second Persia in Anatolia ; thou who didst build thee of old time a hall of golden bricks, winning wealth from the stream of Pactolus; now, ill-fated city, enveloped all of thee in one disaster, thou hast fallen headlong into the depths, swallowed by the fathomless cavern. Bura and Helice too were engulfed by the sea, but thou, Sardis, the inland city, hast met with the same end as these which rest in the deep.