and intolerable that they are still endlessly
abolishing all the monuments and marks of it, though long since extinct.
Such then was the injury done by the Samians to the Corinthians. Now
what a kind of punishment was it the Corinthians would have inflicted on
them? Had they been indeed angry with the Samians, they should not have
incited the Lacedaemonians, but rather diverted them from their war
against Polycrates, that the Samians might not by the tyrant's overthrow
recover liberty, and be freed from their slavery. But (what is most to
be observed) why were the Corinthians so offended with the Samians, that
desired indeed but were not able to save the Corcyraeans children, and
yet were not displeased with the Cnidians, who both preserved them and
restored them to their friends? Nor indeed have the Corcyraeans any
great esteem for the Samians on this account; but of the Cnidians they
preserve a grateful recollection, having granted them several honors
and privileges, and made decrees in their favor. For these, sailing to
Samos, drove away Periander's guards from the temple, and taking the
children aboard their ships, carried them safe to Corcyra; as it is
recorded by Antenor the Cretan, and by Dionysius the Chalcidian in his
foundations. Now that the Spartans undertook not this war on any design
of punishing the Samians, but to save them by delivering them from the
tyrant, we have the testimony of the Samians themselves. For they affirm
that there is in Samos a monument erected at the public charge, and
honors there done to Archias a Spartan, who fell fighting valiantly in
that quarrel; for which cause also his posterity still keep a familiar
and friendly correspondence with the Samians, as Herodotus himself
witnesses.

In his Fifth Book, he says, that Clisthenes, one of the best and noblest
men in Athens, persuaded the priestess Pythia to be a false prophetess,
and always to exhort the Lacedaemonians to free Athens from the tyrants;
calumniating this most excellent and just action by the imputation of so
great a wickedness and imposture, and taking from Apollo the credit of
that true and good prophecy, beseeming even Themis herself, who is also
said to have joined with him. He says farther, that Isagoras prostituted
his wife to Cleomenes, who came to her. (Herodotus, v. 63, 70.) Then,
as his manner is, to gain credit by mixing some praises with his
reproaches, he says: Isagoras the son of Tisander was of a noble famil