Samians
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the Samians · Samos · citizens of Samos · the Samian stranger · the Samnians · the citizens · the men of Samos
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2 expressionsThe Samians3 mentions
The Histories (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
It was against this ever-victorious Polycrates that the Lacedaemonians now made war, invited by the Samians who afterwards founded Cydonia in Crete.
Samos“the Samians”1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
these sailed into port at Samos, and after crossing over to Miletus, formed their camp there.
in the texts
The Histories
Inhabitants of Samos implicated in two conflicting accounts of how a bronze bowl intended for Croesus ended up in their temple of Hera.
but the Samians themselves say that the Lacedaemonians who were bringing the bowl, coming too late, and learning that Sardis and Croesus were taken, sold it in Samos to certain private men, who set it up in the the temple of Hera.
the Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was near Samos on its way to Sardis, the Samians descended upon them in warships and carried it off;
the island of Samos lies close to your province, yet you have not added it to the king's dominion—an island so easy to conquer that some native of it revolted against his rulers with fifteen hoplites, and is now lord of it.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Samos, whose revolt from Athens is recalled by Corinth as an episode in which Corinth declined to support a revolting ally, cited as precedent.
For neither did we, when the Samnians had revolted, give our vote against you, when the rest of the Peloponnesians were divided in their votes, as to whether they should assist them;
And this service, and that with regard to the Samians, namely, that it was through us that the Peloponnesians did not assist them, gave you the mastery of the aeginetans, and the chastisement of the Samians:
But the exiles of the Samians (for there were some who did not remain in the island, but fled to the continent) having made arrangements with the most powerful of those in the city, and an alliance with Pisuthnes, the son of Hystaspes, who had the satrapy of Sardis at that time, and having collected auxiliaries to the number of seven hundred, crossed over to Samos towards night, and in the first p …
Protrepticus
People of Samos, cited for sheep-worship.
a sheep, as Euphorion says, the Samians reverence;