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117.3
Now the Samians did indeed put up a sea-fight for a short time, but they were unable to hold out, and in the ninth month439 B.C. were reduced by siege and agreed to a capitulation, pulling down their walls, giving hostages, delivering over their ships, and consenting to pay back by instalments the money spent upon the siege. The Byzantines too came to terms, agreeing to be subjects as before.
118.1
It was not many yearsHardly four years, since the naval battle between the Corcyraeans and Corinthians seems to have occurred 435 B.C. after this that the events already narrated occurred, namely the Corcyraean affair,1.24-1.40. the Potidaean,1.54-1.66. and all the other incidentsThe transactions in the Spartan assembly, 1.67-1.88. lxxxviii. that furnished an occasion for this war.
