After this, when peace had been made for thirty years between the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians, be got a decree passed for his expedition to Samos, alleging against its people that, though they were ordered to break off their war against the Milesians, they were not complying.
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :
perpetrator: The perpetrators are Samian. victim: The victims are Milesian. topology: / motive: Samos and Miletus wage war for the possession of Priene (Plut. Per. 25.1). long-term consequence: Because the Samians refuse to end their war with Miletus as the Athenians demanded, Pericles starts a campaign against them (Plut. Per. 24.1 and 25.1).