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 115-117] SUBJECTION OF SAMOS 11 in their power were delivered by them into the hands of Pissuthnes. They at once prepared to make an expedition against Miletus. The Byzantians joined in their revolt. When the Athenians heard of the insurrection they n6 sailed for Samos with sixty ships. But The Athenians defeat of this number they sent away sixteen, '''"' Samians at sea. some towards Caria to keep a look out for the Phoenician fleet, others to summon aid from Chios and Lesbos. With the remaining forty-four ships they fought at sea under the command of Pericles and nine others, near the island of Tragia, against seventy Samian vessels, all sailing from Miletus, of which twenty were transports; the Athenians gained the victory. After receiving a reinforcement of forty ships from Athens and of twenty-five from Chios and Lesbos they disembarked, and their infantry proving superior, invested the city with three walls; they also blockaded it by sea. At the same time Pericles took sixty ships of the blockading force and sailed hastily towards Caunus in Caria, news having arrived that a Phoenician fleet was approaching; Stesagoras and others had already gone with five ships from Samos to fetch it. Meanwhile the Samians made a sudden sally, and at- 117 tacking the naval station of the Athe- Temporary sueeess nians which was unprotected, destroyed and final subjection of the guard-ships and engaged and de- ^^'^ ■Samians. feated the other vessels which put out to meet them. During some fourteen days they were masters of the sea about their own coasts, and carried in and out whatever they pleased. But when Pericles returned, they were B.C. 439. again closely blockaded ; and there soon arrived from ^•^ ^5, 2. Athens forty additional ships under The Bysantians also Thucydides, Hagnon, and Phormio, submit. twenty more under Tlepolemus and Anticles, and thirty from Chios and Lesbos. The Samians made a feeble attempt at a sea-fight, but soon they were unable to resict, and after nine months were forced to surrender. The terms of capitulation were as follows :— They were t<^ raze