Pericles besieges the Samians

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Pericles Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: attack
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pericles 26.1Plutarch Pericles 26.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Samos (Samos)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	440 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign revolt siege
Motivation :	political
Long-Term Consequence :	battle
Original Text :	ἅμα δὲ τῇ νίκῃ καὶ τῇ διώξει τοῦ λιμένος κρατήσας ἐπολιόρκει τοὺς Σαμίους, ἁμῶς γέ πως ἔτι τολμῶντας ἐπεξιέναι καὶ διαμάχεσθαι πρὸ τοῦ τείχους.
Translation :	Close on the heels of his victorious pursuit came his seizure of the harbor, and then he laid formal siege to the Samians, who, somehow or other, still had the daring to sally forth and fight with him before their walls.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :	victim: The victims are Samian. long-term consequence: The Samian general Melissus persuaded his fellow-citizens to fight the Athenians in a battle (Plut. Per. 26.2).
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