Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 11, section 6

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[6] So after separating out the priests, all who were guest-friends of the Macedonians, the descendants of Pindar, ¹ and those who had voted against the revolt, he sold the rest into slavery, and they proved to be more than thirty thousand; those who had been slain were more than six thousand.

1 ‘And we are told that Alexander preserved the house of Pindar the poet, and the descendants of Pindar, out of regard for Pindar’ (Arrian, Anab. i. 9, 10).

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.

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