If you are yourself afraid of them, give me your foreign guards, and I will punish them for coming here; as for you, I will give you safe conduct out of the island.”

This was what Charilaus said; and Maeandrius took his advice, to my thinking not because he was so foolish as to suppose that he would be strong enough to defeat the king, but because he did not want Syloson to recover +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos safe and sound with no trouble.