According to Plutarch, Pericles was so afraid of the oncoming trial that he did not let the Athenians yield to the Lacedaemonians.
Sipas Plutarkut, Perikliu ishte kaq i frikësuar nga gjyqi i ardhshëm saqë nuk e lejoi Athinën t’i dorëzohej Laqedemonasve.