| #### CHAPTER 56 |

| #### #### The Lacedaemonians besieged Samos during forty days, but not making any progress before the place, they raised the siege at the end of that time, and returned home to the Peloponnese. There is a silly tale told that Polycrates struck a quantity of the coin of his country in lead, and, coating it with gold, gave it to the Lacedaemonians, who on receiving it took their departure. #### This was the first expedition into Asia of the Lacedaemonian Dorians. ####  |