For oh! how lettered is the folk of the Samians!
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It got this name because it made its first appearance in Samos, where Polycrates the tyrant had some built. To these brand-marks, they say, the verse of Aristophanes1 made riddling reference:—
1 From his Babylonians, not extant. Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 408.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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