The Samians take many Athenian soldiers captive

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Melissus of Samos Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: capture
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pericles 26.2Plutarch Pericles 26.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Samos (Samos)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	440 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign battle revolt siege
Motivation :	political tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	injury revenge
Original Text :	καὶ γενομένης μάχης νικήσαντες οἱ Σάμιοι, καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν αὐτῶν ἄνδρας ἑλόντες, πολλὰς δὲ ναῦς διαφθείραντες, ἐχρῶντο τῇ θαλάσσῃ καὶ παρετίθεντο τῶν ἀναγκαίων πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον ὅσα μὴ πρότερον εἶχον.
Translation :	In the battle that ensued the Samians were victorious, taking many of their enemy captive, and destroying many of their ships, so that they commanded the sea and laid in large store of such necessaries for the war as they did not have before.
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: See Plut. Per. 26.3: "The Samians retaliated upon the Athenians by branding their prisoners in the forehead with owls; for the Athenians had once branded some of them with the samaena."
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