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Polycrates

Polycrates, Attic rhetorician

Paus. 6.17.9

Polycrates (2), tyrant of Samos

Paus. 1.2.3
despot of Samos, son of Aeaces, his friendship with Amasis: Hdt. 2.182, Hdt. 3.39, Hdt. 3.40
his successes and alarming good luck: Hdt. 3.39-43
his emerald signet: Paus. 8.14.8
his war with Lacedaemon: Hdt. 3.44-46, Hdt. 3.54-56
induced to leave Samos, and murdered by Oroetes: Hdt. 3.120-125