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 76 THIRTY YEARS' TRUCE. REVOLT OF SAMOS [l Nisaea. The Megarians had introduced a force of Corin- thians, Sicyonians, and Epidaurians into the city, and by their help had effected the revolt. Pericles in haste with- drew his army from Euboea. The Peloponnesians then invaded Attica under the command of Pleistoanax son of Pausanias, the Lacedaemonian king. They advanced as far as Eleusis and Thria but no further, and after ravaging the country, returned home. Thereupon the Athenians under the command of Pericles again crossed over to Euboea and reduced the whole country ; the Hestiaeans they ejected from their homes and appropri- ated their territory ; the rest of the island they settled by agreement. 115 Soon after their return from Euboea they made a truce The Athenians agree for thirty years with the Lacedaemo- io restore the places held nians and their allies, restoring Nisaea, by thent in Peloponne. ^ Troezen and Achaia, which were sits. Revolt of the ^a- o > t-> 1 mians, who are assisted the places held by them in Pelopon- B.C. 440. ^'y ^''^ Bysantians. nesus. Six years later the Samians Ol- 85. and Milesians went to war about the possession of Priene, and the Milesians, who were getting worsted, came to Athens and complained loudly of the Samians. Some private citizens of Samos, who wanted to overthrow the government, supported their complaint. Whereupon the Athenians, sailing to Samos with forty ships, established a democracy, and taking as hostages fifty boys and fifty men whom they deposited at Lemnos, they returned leaving a garrison. But certain of the Samians who had quitted the island and fled to the mainland entered into an alli- ance with the principal oligarchs who remained in the city, and with Pissuthnes the son of Hystaspes, then governor of Sardis, and collecting troops to the number of seven hundred they crossed over by night to Samos. First of all they attacked the victorious populace and got most of them into their power ; then they stole away their hostages from Lemnos, and finally revolted from Athens. The garrison of the Athenians and the officials who were