But he appears not to speak the truth when he says, forsooth, that Pericles had the Samian trierarchs and marines brought into the market-place of Miletus and crucified there, and that then, when they had already suffered grievously for ten days, he gave orders to break their heads in with clubs and make an end of them, and then cast their bodies forth without burial rites.
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 vitims are Samian. Their exact activities are trierarchs and marines. long-term consequence: The Samians are pilloried for ten days (Plut. Per. 28.2). After the ten days Pericles give orders to kill them (Plut. Per. 28.2).
Notes :
Plutarch does not believe that this act of violence actually happenend (Plut. Per. 28.1-3).
