but the Lacedemonians say that they made the expedition not so much from desire to help the Samians at their request, as to take vengeance on their own behalf for the robbery of the mixing-bowl which they had been bearing as a gift to Croesus, and of the corslet which Amasis the king of Egypt had sent as a gift to them; for the Samians had carried off the corslet also in the year before they took the bowl;
lazedemondarrek diotenez, ordea, ez ziren horrenbeste eskean zetozen samoarrei lagundu nahiz gerraratu, Kresori zeramakioten krateraren eta Egyptoko errege Amasisek beraiei emaritzat bidali zien bularrekoaren lapurreta mendekatzeagatik bezainbat. Bada, samoarrek kratera baino urte bat lehenago lapurtu zuten bularrekoa, linozkoa eta irudi askorekin ehundua izanaz gainera urrez eta kotoiez hornitua zegoelarik;