Book 3
55.2
I myself have met in his native town of Pitana A part of the town of Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta ; Herodotus calls it by the Attic name of δῆμος; the Peloponnesian word would be κώμα. another Archias son of Samius, and grandson of the Archias mentioned above, who honored the Samians more than any other of his guest-friends, and told me that his father had borne the name Samius because he was the son of that Archias who was killed fighting bravely at +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos . The reason that he honored the Samians, he said, was that they had given his grandfather a public funeral.
56.1
So when the Lacedaemonians had besieged +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos for forty days with no success, they went away to the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnesus .
56.2
There is a foolish tale abroad that Polycrates bribed them to depart by making and giving them a great number of gilded lead coins, as a native currency. This was the first expedition to Asia (continent) Asia made by Dorians of Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon .Not the first expedition, that is, made by any inhabitants of +Laconia [22.583,37] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Laconia , Achaeans from that country having taken part in the Trojan war.
