§12.27.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος δʼ Ἀθήνησι Τιμοκλέους Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν κατέστησαν ὑπάτους Λαρῖνον Ἑρμίνιον καὶ Τίτον Στερτίνιον Στρούκτορα.
When Timocles was archon in Athens, the Romans appointed Larinus Herminius and Titus Stertinius Structor as consuls.
ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων Σάμιοι μὲν πρὸς Μιλησίους περὶ Πριήνης ἀμφισβητήσαντες εἰς πόλεμον κατέστησαν, ὁρῶντες δὲ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ταῖς εὐνοίαις διαφέροντας πρὸς Μιλησίους, ἀπέστησαν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν.
Under their administration, the Samians, having disputed with the Milesians over Priene, entered into war; and seeing that the Athenians favored the Milesians in their goodwill, they revolted from them.
οἱ δὲ Περικλέα προχειρισάμενοι στρατηγὸν ἐξέπεμψαν ἐπὶ τοὺς Σαμίους ἔχοντα τριήρεις τετταράκοντα.
The Athenians, having chosen Pericles as general, sent him against the Samians with forty triremes.
§12.27.2οὗτος δὲ πλεύσας ἐπὶ τὴν Σάμον παρεισελθὼν δὲ καὶ τῆς πόλεως ἐγκρατὴς γενόμενος κατέστησε δημοκρατίαν ἐν αὐτῇ.
He, having sailed to Samos, and having entered and made himself master of the city, established a democracy in it.
πραξάμενος δὲ παρὰ τῶν Σαμίων ὀγδοήκοντα τάλαντα, καὶ τοὺς ἴσους ὁμήρους παῖδας λαβών, τούτους μὲν παρέδωκε τοῖς Λημνίοις, αὐτὸς δʼ ἐν ὀλίγαις ἡμέραις ἅπαντα συντετελεκὼς ἐπανῆλθεν εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας.
Having exacted eighty talents from the Samians and taken an equal number of children as hostages, he delivered them to the Lemnians, and having himself accomplished everything in a few days, he returned to Athens.
§12.27.3ἐν δὲ τῇ Σάμῳ στάσεως γενομένης, καὶ τῶν μὲν αἱρουμένων τὴν δημοκρατίαν, τῶν δὲ βουλομένων τὴν ἀριστοκρατίαν εἶναι, ταραχὴ πολλὴ τὴν πόλιν ἐπεῖχε.
But when civil strife arose in Samos, some choosing democracy and others wishing for aristocracy, great confusion prevailed in the city.
τῶν δʼ ἐναντιουμένων τῇ δημοκρατίᾳ διαβάντων εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ πορευθέντων εἰς Σάρδεις πρὸς Πισσούθνην τὸν τῶν Περσῶν σατράπην περὶ βοηθείας, ὁ μὲν Πισσούθνης ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς στρατιώτας ἑπτακοσίους, ἐλπίζων τῆς Σάμου διὰ τούτου κυριεύσειν, οἱ δὲ Σάμιοι μετὰ τῶν δοθέντων αὐτοῖς στρατιωτῶν νυκτὸς πλεύσαντες εἰς τὴν Σάμον ἔλαθόν τε παρεισελθόντες, τῶν πολιτῶν συνεργούντων, ῥᾳδίως τʼ ἐκράτησαν τῆς Σάμου, καὶ τοὺς ἀντιπράττοντας αὐτοῖς ἐξέβαλον ἐκ τῆς πόλεως·
Those who opposed the democracy crossed over to Asia and went to Sardis to Pissuthnes, the satrap of the Persians, to ask for aid, and Pissuthnes gave them seven hundred soldiers, hoping by this means to get control of Samos. The Samians, having sailed by night to Samos with the soldiers given to them, succeeded in entering undetected, since the citizens cooperated with them, and easily mastered Samos, and expelled those who opposed them from the city.
τοὺς δʼ ὁμήρους ἐκκλέψαντες ἐκ τῆς Λήμνου καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Σάμον ἀσφαλισάμενοι, φανερῶς ἑαυτοὺς ἀπέδειξαν πολεμίους τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις.
Having stolen the hostages from Lemnos and secured affairs in Samos, they openly declared themselves enemies of the Athenians.
§12.27.4οἱ δὲ πάλιν Περικλέα προχειρισάμενοι στρατηγὸν ἐξέπεμψαν ἐπὶ τοὺς Σαμίους μετὰ νεῶν ἑξήκοντα.
The Athenians again chose Pericles as general and sent him against the Samians with sixty ships.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦθʼ ὁ μὲν Περικλῆς ναυμαχήσας πρὸς ἑβδομήκοντα τριήρεις ἐνίκησε τοὺς Σαμίους, μεταπεμψάμενος δὲ παρὰ Χίων καὶ Μυτιληναίων ναῦς εἴκοσι πέντε μετὰ τούτων ἐπολιόρκησε τὴν Σάμον.
After this, Pericles, having fought a naval battle against seventy triremes, defeated the Samians, and having sent for twenty-five ships from the Chians and Mytilenians, he besieged Samos with these.
§12.27.5μετὰ δέ τινας ἡμέρας Περικλῆς μὲν καταλιπὼν μέρος τῆς δυνάμεως ἐπὶ τῆς πολιορκίας ἀνέζευξεν, ἀπαντήσων ταῖς Φοινίσσαις ναυσίν, ἃς οἱ Πέρσαι τοῖς Σαμίοις ἦσαν ἀπεσταλκότες.
After some days, Pericles, leaving a part of his force for the siege, set sail in order to meet the Phoenician ships which the Persians had sent to the Samians.