Histories

Had all the Lacedaemonians there that day been like Archias and Lycopas, +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos would have been taken. These two alone entered the fortress along with the fleeing crowd of Samians, and were cut off and killed in the city of +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos.

I myself have met in his native town of Pitana [*](A part of the town of Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta; Herodotus calls it by the Attic name of dh=mos; the Peloponnesian word would be kw/ma.) another Archias son of Samius, and grandson of the Archias mentioned above, who honored the Samians more than any other of his guest-friends, and told me that his father had borne the name Samius because he was the son of that Archias who was killed fighting bravely at +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos. The reason that he honored the Samians, he said, was that they had given his grandfather a public funeral.