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ing the Samians, he indulged very high and proud thoughts of himself: whereas Agamemnon was ten years a taking a barbarous city, he had in nine months' time vanquished and taken the greatest and most powerful of the Ionians. And indeed it was not without reason that he assumed this glor} r to himself, for, in real truth, there was much uncertainty and great hazard in this war, if so be, as Thucydides tells us, the Samian state were within a very little of wresting the whole power and domin- ion of the sea out of the Athenians' hands. After this was over, the Peloponnesian war beginning to break out in full tide, he advised the people to send help to the Corcynsans, who were attacked by the Co- rinthians, and to secure to themselves an island possessed of great naval resources, since the Peloponnesians were already all but in actual hostilities against them. The people readily consenting to the motion, and voting an aid and succor for them, he despatched Lacedtemonius, Cimon's son, having only ten ships with him, as it were out of a design to affront him ; for there was a great kindness and friendship betwixt Cimon's family and the Lacedaemonians ; so, in order that Laceda?monius might lie the more open to a charge, or suspicion at least, of favoring the Lacedaemonians and playing false, if he per- formed no considerable exploit in this service, he allowed him a small number of ships, and sent him out against his will ; and indeed he made it somewhat his business to hinder Cimon's sons from rising in the state, professing that by their very names they were not to be looked upon as native and true Athenians, but foreigners and strangers, one being called Lacedsemonius, another Thes- salus, and the third Eleus ; and they were all three of them, it was thought, born of an Arcadian woman. Be- ing, however, ill spoken of on account of these ten gal-

leys, as having afforded but a small supply to the people