Histories

So when the Lacedaemonians had besieged +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos for forty days with no success, they went away to the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnesus.

There is a foolish tale abroad that Polycrates bribed them to depart by making and giving them a great number of gilded lead coins, as a native currency. This was the first expedition to Asia (continent)Asia made by Dorians of Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon.[*](Not the first expedition, that is, made by any inhabitants of +Laconia [22.583,37] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Laconia, Achaeans from that country having taken part in the Trojan war.)

When the Lacedaemonians were about to abandon them, the Samians who had brought an army against Polycrates sailed away too, and went to Siphnus;