Note 368 — Chapter III · Samos
Reading edition
Thuc. I. 13; Hdt. III. 39, 122; Strabo, XIV. 637. Max. Tyr. (Teubner), XXIX. 2; Euseb. Chron. Armenian vers. “mare obtinuerunt Samii,” Lat. vers. “Dicearchiam Samii condiderunt,” both just after notice of Polycrates’ accession. Cp. S. Reinach’s interpretation of the ring which Polycrates cast into the sea (Hdt. III. 41; Strabo, XIV. 638; Paus. VIII. 14. 8; Pliny, N.H. XXXVII. 1; Cic. de Fin. V. 30. 92; Val. Max. VI. 9. 5 (ext.); Tzetz. Chil. VII. 121; Galen, Protrept. 4; Eustath. ad Dionys. V. 534), with which the French scholar compares the ring with which the doge of Venice annually wedded his mistress the sea (S. Reinach, Rev. Arch. ser. IV. vol. VI. (1905), pp. 9 f.), but cp. Marshall, Brit. Mus. Cat. Rings, p. xxi, n. 7, who points out that wedding rings seem unknown among the Greeks.