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 :
perpetrator: The perpetrators are Samian. long-term consequence: Because the Samians still fight against the already besieging Athenians, a second and a larger armament comes from Athens, and the Samians get completely beleaguered and shut in (Plut. Per. 26.1).