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The Corinthians also enthusiastically helped to further the expedition against Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos . For an outrage had been done them by the Samians a generation before this expedition, about the time of the robbery of the bowl.
The Corinthians also enthusiastically helped to further the expedition against Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos . For an outrage had been done them by the Samians a generation before this expedition, about the time of the robbery of the bowl.
[2]
Periander son of
Cypselus sent to
Alyattes at
Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus)
Sardis
three hundred boys, sons of notable men in
+Corfu [19.916,39.633] (inhabited place), Corfu, Kerkira, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe
Corcyra
, to be made eunuchs. The
Corinthians who brought the boys put in at
Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe
Samos
; and when the
Samians heard why the boys were brought, first they instructed them to take sanctuary in the temple of
Artemis,
[3] then they would not allow the suppliants to be dragged from the temple; and when the
Corinthians tried to starve the boys out, the
Samians held a festival which they still celebrate in the same fashion; throughout the time that the boys were seeking asylum, they held nightly dances of young men and women to which it was made a custom to bring cakes of sesame and honey, so that the
Corcyraean boys might snatch these and have food.
[4] This continued to be done until the
Corinthian guards left their charge and departed; then the
Samians took the boys back to
+Corfu [19.916,39.633] (inhabited place), Corfu, Kerkira, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe
Corcyra
.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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