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Often appears with: tribute demands · taxation, tribute, and revenue · payments of war reparations · oracle interpretation · inter-island raiding and retaliation · fate, destiny, and necessity · diplomacy and embassies
Usually: narrative (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · curiosity (1)
After Samos’s siege, Polycrates sends gilded lead coins to the Lacedaemonians so they will depart; Samians then sail to Siphnos, where a Delphic oracle leads to conflict over tribute and a payment of a hundred talents.
and many of them were cut off by the Samians and shut out of the city; and the Samians after this imposed upon them a payment of a hundred talents. 59. Then from the men of Hermion they received by payment of money the island of Hydrea, which is near the coast of Peloponnese, and they gave it in charge to the Troizenians, but they themselves settled at Kydonia which is in Crete, not sailing thither for that purpose …