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For this reason, and because he had chosen them as his friends before all the other Greeks, the Lacedaemonians accepted the alliance. So they declared themselves ready to serve him when he should require, and moreover they made a bowl of bronze, engraved around the rim outside with figures, and large enough to hold twenty-seven hundred gallons, and brought it with the intention of making a gift in return to Croesus.
For this reason, and because he had chosen them as his friends before all the other Greeks, the Lacedaemonians accepted the alliance. So they declared themselves ready to serve him when he should require, and moreover they made a bowl of bronze, engraved around the rim outside with figures, and large enough to hold twenty-seven hundred gallons, and brought it with the intention of making a gift in return to Croesus.
[2] This bowl never reached
Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus)
Sardis
, for which two reasons are given: the
Lacedaemonians say that when the bowl was near
Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe
Samos
on its way to
Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus)
Sardis
, the
Samians descended upon them in warships and carried it off;
[3] but the
Samians themselves say that the
Lacedaemonians who were bringing the bowl, coming too late, and learning that
Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus)
Sardis
and
Croesus were taken, sold it in
Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe
Samos
to certain private men, who set it up in the the temple of
Hera. And it may be that the sellers of the bowl, when they returned to
Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus)
Sparta
, said that they had been robbed of it by the
Samians. Such are the tales about the bowl.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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