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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt:...to revolt from Athens. We see that none of the allies of Athens--not even Chios, the most powerful of all--revolted without the extraneous pressure and encouragement of a foreign fleet. Alkibiadgs, after securing Chios, considered Miletus to be next in order of importance, and had moreover peculiar connexions with the leading men there (viii. 17); so that he went next to detach that place from Athens. Miletus, being on the continent, placed him in immediate communication with Tissaphernds, for which reason he might naturally deem it of importance superior Oven to Samos in his plans. Moreover, not only no foreign fleet had yet reached Samos, but several Athenian ships had arrived there: for 8trombichides, having come across the Mge&n too late to save ChioB, made Samos a sort of central station (viii. 16). These circumstances, combined with the known reluctance of the Samian Demos or commonalty, are surely sufficient to explain why the Samian oligarchy had not yet consummated its designs to revolt. And hence the fact, that no revolt had yet taken place, cannot be held to warrant Dr. Thirlwall's inference, that the government was not oligarchical. We have no information how or when the oligarchical government at Samos got up. That the Samian refugees at Ansa, so actively hostile to Samos and Athens during the first ten yearB of the Peloponnesian war, were oligarchical exiles acting against a democratical government at Samos (iv. 76), is not in itself improbable; yet it is not positively stated. The government of Samos might have been, even at that time, oligarchical; yet, if it acted in the Athenian interest, there would doubtless be a body of exiles watching for opportunities of injuring it, by aid of the enemies of Athens. Moreover, it seems to me, that...