Histories

Then Leutychides cut short whatever else Hegesistratus had begun to say, and cried: “I accept the omen of your name, Samian stranger; now see to it that before you sail from here you and those who are with you pledge that the Samians will be our zealous allies.”

He said this and added deed to word. For straightway the Samians bound themselves by pledge and oath to alliance with the Greeks.