f their father.
Despotism is an insecure thing, and many desire it: moreover he is now
an old man and past his prime. Give not thy good things unto others."
She thus said to him the most persuasive things, having been before
instructed by her father: but he in answer said, that he would never
come to Corinth so long as he heard that his father was yet alive. When
she had reported this, Periander the third time sent an envoy, and said
that he desired himself to come to Corcyra, exhorting Lycophron at the
same time to come back to Corinth and to be his successor on the throne.
The son having agreed to return on these terms, Periander was preparing
to sail to Corcyra and his son to Corinth; but the Corcyreans, having
learnt all that had taken place, put the young man to death, in order
that Periander might not come to their land. For this cause it was that
Periander took vengeance on those of Corcyra.

54. The Lacedemonians then had come with a great armament and were
besieging Samos; and having made an attack upon the wall, they occupied
the tower which stands by the sea in the suburb of the city, but
afterwards when Polycrates came up to the rescue with a large body they
were driven away from it. Meanwhile by the upper tower which is upon
the ridge of the mountain there had come out to the fight the foreign
mercenaries and many of the Samians themselves, and these stood their
ground against the Lacedemonians for a short while and then began to fly
backwards; and the Lacedemonians followed and were slaying them.

55. Now if the Lacedemonians there present had all been equal on that
day to Archias and Lycopas, Samos would have been captured; for Archias
and Lycopas alone rushed within the wall together with the flying
Samians, and being shut off from retreat were slain within the city of
the Samians. I myself moreover had converse in Pitane (for to that
deme he belonged) with the third in descent from this Archias, another
Archias the son of Samios the son of Archias, who honoured the Samians
of all strangers most; and not only so, but he said that his own father
had been called Samios because his father Archias had died by a glorious
death in Samos; and he said that he honoured Samians because his
grandfather had been granted a public funeral by the Samians.

56. The Lacedemonians then, when they had been besieging Samos for
forty days and their affairs made no progress, set forth to return to
Peloponnesus. But accordin