When Ptolemy the king of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Egypt&groupId=556&placeId=368">Egypt</a> laid siege to the city of Lycopolis, the Egyptian chiefs in terror surrendered at discretion.
He used them ill and incurred great danger (sic).
Much the same thing happened when Polycrates got the rebels into his power.
For Athinis, Pausiras, Chesufus and Irobastus, the surviving chieftains, forced by circumstances, came to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sais&groupId=939&placeId=1674">Sais</a> to entrust themselves to the king\'s good faith.
But Ptolemy, violating his faith, tied the men naked to carts, and, after dragging them through the streets and torturing them, put them to death.
On reaching Naucratis with his army, when Aristonicus had presented to him the mercenaries he had raised in Greece, he took them and sailed off to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Alexandria&groupId=1063&placeId=1868">Alexandria</a>, having taken no part in any action in the war owing to the unfairness of Polycrates, although he was now twenty-five years old.
Walbank Commentary