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Then Otanes, the general, when he saw the great calamity which had
befallen the Persians, made up his mind to forget the orders which
Darius had given him, "not to kill or enslave a single Samian, but
to deliver up the island unharmed to Syloson," and gave the word to
his army that they should slay the Samians, both men and boys,
wherever they could find them. Upon this some of his troops laid siege
to the citadel, while others began the massacre, killing all they
met, some outside, some inside the temples.
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