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The Histories–Book Three V 53
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.
After Periander had put to death his wife Melissa,
it chanced that on this first affliction a second followed
of a different kind. His wife had borne him
two sons, and one of them had now reached the
age of seventeen, the other of eighteen years,
when their mother’s father, Procles, tyrant of
Epidaurus, asked them to his court. They went,
and Procles treated them with much kindness, as