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The man who thus spoke was a certain Telesarchus, one of the leading
citizens. Maeandrius, therefore, feeling sure that if he laid down
the sovereign power some one else would become tyrant in his room, gave
up the thought of relinquishing it. Withdrawing to the citadel, he
sent for the chief men one by one, under pretence of showing them his
accounts, and as fast as they came arrested them and put them in
irons. So these men were bound; and Maeandrius within a short time
fell sick: whereupon Lycaretus, one of his brothers, thinking that
he was going to die, and wishing to make his own accession to the
throne the easier, slew all the prisoners. It seemed that the
Samians did not choose to be a free people.
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