It was against this ever-victorious Polycrates that the Lacedaemonians now made war, invited by the Samians who afterwards founded Cydonia in Crete . Polycrates had without the knowledge of his subjects sent a herald to Cambyses, son of Cyrus, then raising an army against Egypt , inviting Cambyses to send to Samos too and request men from him. At this message Cambyses very readily sent to Samos , asking Polycrates to send a fleet to aid him against Egypt . Polycrates chose those men whom he most suspected of planning a rebellion against him, and sent them in forty triremes, directing Cambyses not to send the men back.
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
siege of Samos — a candidate entry Cambyses — a life Cyrus — a candidate entry Cyrus the Great — a life Polycrates — a life
The Histories, Herodotus — translated by A. D. Godley, 1920–25
Perseus Digital Library — Herodotus, The Histories (Godley translation) · A. D. Godley, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press / William Heinemann, 1920–25
license: public-domain (US: pre-1930 publication); Perseus digital edition CC BY-SA 4.0, attribution recorded in ops/corpus-staging/SOURCES.md