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And this went on for so long, that at last the Corinthians who had
charge of the boys gave them up, and took their departure, upon which
the Samians conveyed them back to Corcyra. If now, after the death
of Periander, the Corinthians and Corcyraeans had been good
friends, it is not to be imagined that the former would ever have taken
part in the expedition against Samos for such a reason as this; but
as, in fact, the two people have always, ever since the first
settlement of the island, been enemies to one another, this outrage
was remembered, and the Corinthians bore the Samians a grudge for
it. Periander had chosen the youths from among the first families in
Corcyra, and sent them a present to Alyattes, to avenge a wrong
which he had received. For it was the Corcyraeans who began the
quarrel and injured Periander by an outrage of a horrid nature.
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