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were persons of distinction, the Samians sallied, and
put them to death; the rest of the troops, however,
soon came to their assistance, by whom the party of
Charileus was repulsed, and again obliged to seek
shelter in the citadel.

CXLVII. Otanes, the commander-in-chief, had
hitherto observed the orders of Darius, not to put any
Samian to death, or to take any prisoners, but to de­
liver the island to Syloson, secure and without injury:
but seeing so great a slaughter of his countrymen, his
indignation prevailed, and he ordered his soldiers to
put every Samian they could meet with to death,
without any distinction of age. Part of his forces
immediately blockaded the citadel, whilst another part
were putting the inhabitants to the sword, not suffer­
ing the sacred places to afford any protection.

CXLVIII. Mamndrius, leaving Samos, sailed to La-
cedaemon. On his arrival there with his wealth, he
set in order his goblets of gold and silver, and directed
his servants to clean them. Having entered into con­
versation with Cleomenes, son of Anaxandrides, the
king of Sparta, he invited him to his house. Cleomenes
saw his plate, and was struck with astonishment.
Maeandrius desired him to accept of what he pleased,
but Cleomenes was a man of the strictest probity,
and although Maiandrius persisted in importuning
him to take something, he would by no means con­
sent ; but hearing that some of his fellow-citizens had
received presents from Mamndrius, he went to the
ephori, and gave it as his opinion, that it would be
better for the interests of Sparta to expel this Samian
from the Peloponnese, lest either he himself, or any
other Spartan, should be corrupted by him. The ad­
vice of Cleomenes was generally approved, and Ma;-
andrius received a public order to depart.

CXLIX. When the Persians had taken the Samians
as in a net, they delivered the island to Syloson al­
most without an inhabitant. After a certain interval,
however, Otanes, the Persian general, repeopled it,
on account of some vision which he had, as well as
from a disorder which seized his privities.

CL. Whilst the expedition against Samos was on