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If now all who were present had behaved that day like Archias and
Lycopas, two of the Lacedaemonians, Samos might have been taken.
For these two heroes, following hard upon the flying Samians,
entered the city along with them, and, being all alone, and their
retreat cut off, were slain within the walls of the place. I myself
once fell in with the grandson of this Archias, a man named Archias
like his grandsire, and the son of Samius, whom I met at Pitana,
to which canton he belonged. He respected the Samians beyond all
other foreigners, and he told me that his father was called Samius,
because his grandfather Archias died in Samos so gloriously, and that
the reason why he respected the Samians so greatly was that his
grandsire was buried with public honours by the Samian people.
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