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[6] What shall I say also of the Melians,1 whom they reduced by siege and slew from the youth upward? and of the Scionaeans,2 who, although their kinsmen, shared the same fate as the Melians? Consequently two peoples who had fallen foul of Attic fury had left not even any of their number to perform the rites over the bodies of their dead.

1 Cp. Book 12.80.5.

2 Cp. Book 12.76.3.

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