Samos

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;

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 offerings in Samos were dedicated because of the friendship between Amasis and Polycrates, son of Aeaces;

The Athenians therefore sailed to Samos with forty ships, and established a democracy;

for there had also gone from Samos Stesagoras and some others with five ships to fetch those of the Phoenicians.

Against these the Samians fought a short battle by sea, but being unable to hold out, were reduced in the ninth month, and surrendered on conditions;

and after collecting there a hundred talents, he returned to Samos.

Accordingly Alcibiades set up a trophy, and after remaining there a few days, sailed to Samos, and from Samos as a base prosecuted the war.

After this Conon set sail from Andros, with the twenty ships which he had, to Samos, there to assume command of the fleet in accordance with the vote which the Athenians had passed.

He met him in Samos at a gathering—just a private pleasure-party-and because he imagined he was insulting him, took such summary vengeance that he actually killed him.

But these were not his only claims, for he had also taken arms in the cause of democracy, twice in Samos and a third time in Athens itself, displaying his patriotism, not by gifts of money or by speeches, but by personal service.

And Pythagoras fled willingly from Samos when it was under a tyranny, but among all other men, and especially, I think, about Italy, he was honoured as a god.

And Polycrates, they say, so long as he ruled Samos alone, was the most fortunate of all men;

Down she plunged into the dark sea [ pontos] midway between Samos and rocky Imbros;

for when Achilles took any other of my sons, he would sell him beyond the seas, to Samos Imbros or rugged Lemnos;

Now there is a rocky islet called Asteris, of no great size, in mid channel between Ithaca and Samos, and there is a harbor on either side of it where a ship can lie.

The chief men among the suitors are lying in wait for you in the Strait between Ithaca and Samos, and they mean to kill you before you can reach home.

At that time a certain private citizen who merely undertook to sail to Samos was on the same day punished with death by the Senate of the Areopagus, as a traitor to his country.

Anticles, however, is absent in Samos as a member of the new colony, so I will pass on to the next incident.

Thus equipped, the forces in Samos went on to defeat the Peloponnesians at sea;

In fact, I at once proceeded to supply your forces in Samos with oar-spars—this was after the Four Hundred had seized power at Athens —since Archelaus had hereditary connexions with my family and offered me the right of cutting and exporting as many as I wished.

and Olympichus records, in his Samian Affairs, that the xoanon of Hera in Samos was made by Smilis the son of Eucleides.

and that of Samian Hera, as Aethlius says, was at first a plank, but later, in the archonship of Procles, became of human form.

For it is absurd that the emulators of Pythagoras of Samos, declining the demonstrations of the things inquired into, should hold the "He himself said it" to be faith, and be content with this voice alone for the confirmation of what they have heard;

Timotheus, seeing that Ariobarzanes was in open revolt from the King and that Samos was garrisoned by Cyprothemis, who had been stationed there by Tigranes, the King’s viceroy, abandoned his intention of helping the satrap, but invested the island and used his force to liberate it;

Samos, among the cities of Ionia;

Well, then, from Samos he sailed away and captured Sestos and Crithôte, forcing you, who up to that time had been careless of your interests in the Chersonese, to give your attention to that territory.

and that city which Pericles, renowned above all others for his wisdom, his justice, and his moderation, reduced with a fleet of two hundred ships and the expenditure of a thousand talents, Timotheus, without receiving from you or collecting from your allies any money whatsoever, captured after a siege of ten months with a force of eight thousand light-armed troops and thirty triremes, and he paid …

If the barbarian strengthens his hold on the cities of the coast by stationing in them larger garrisons than he has there now, perhaps those of the islands which lie near the mainland, as, for example, Rhodes and Samos and Chios, might incline to his side;

Would Juno have wished the Punic city — beloved before Samos — to be consumed, of all things, by the fires of the Aeneadae?

It changes even now its fashion locally, when a site is damaged, when among the islands there is no longer any Delos, sands made of Samos, and the Sibyl no liar;