⁴⁷ Menelaus, the cause of all the trouble, he acquitted of the charges against him, while he sentenced to death those unfortunate men who would have been freed uncondemned if they had pleaded even before Scythians.^(A)

⁷ Since they were unable in any way to break his spirit,^[a] they abandoned the instruments^[b] and scalped him with their fingernails in a Scythian fashion.