<head>Affairs in Crete</head>The people of Cydonia at this time committed a shocking act of treachery universally condemned.
For although many such things have happened in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Crete&groupId=505&placeId=949">Crete</a>, what was done then was thought to surpass all other instances of their habitual ferocity.
For while they were not only friends with the Apolloniats, but united with them in one community, and shared with them in general all the rights observed by men, there being a sworn treaty to this effect deposited in the temple of Idaean Zeus, they treacherously seized on the city, killing the men, laying violent hands on all property, and dividing among themselves and keeping the women and children, and the city with its territory.
Walbank Commentary