When they were delivered to her by the Persians, Pheretime took the most guilty of the Barcaeans and set them impaled around the top of the wall; the breasts of their women she cut off and planted around the wall in like manner.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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