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1833 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Strabo, Geography (eds. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) book 10, chapter 2, section 17
   Since then both Cephallenia and Samothracé were called Samos at the time of the Trojan war, (for if it had not been so Hecuba would not have been introduced saying, that Achilles would sell any of her children that he could seize at Samos and Imbros,) Ionian Samos was not yet colonized (by Ionians), which is evident from its having the same name from one of the islands earlier (called Samos), that had it before; whence this also is clear, that those persons contradict ancient history, who assert, that colonists came from Samos after the Ionian migration, and the arrival of Tembrion, and gave the name of Samos to Samothracé. (22.25)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *p, entry *pelusiw/n
   , name of month at Samos, (ii B. C.). (21.11)

3. Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators orator Andocides, speech 2, section 13
   , with regard to the army at Samos) proved to be very different from what I had supposed’: i.e. the relations of the army at Samos with the Four Hundred at Athens were such that the latter received Andoc. not as a friend but as a foe. (18.88)

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3 from Renaissance Materials

1. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background part app. d
   Whilst Antonius made war with the Parthians, or rather infortunately they made war with him to his great confusion, his lieutenant Titius found the means to lay hands upon Sextus Pompeius; that was fled into the ile of Samos, and then forty years old: whom he put to death by Antonius' commandment. (2.10)

2. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   15 Item, if either in Alexandria, Damasco , Samos , Tunis , Tripolis in ye west, the port townes of Ægypt, or in any other places, they purpose to choose to themselves Consuls or governours, let them doe so, and if they will alter them at any time, and in the roome of the former Consuls place others, let them do so also, and no man shall restraine them. (1.99)

3. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   From thence sailing alongst the gulfe of Ephesus with Nicaria on the right hand, Samos and Smirna on the left, we came to Patmos , where S. John wrote the Revelation. (1.89)

1 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices section DRAMATIC VERSIONS, subsection Cléopatre, by Émile de Girardin (Delphine Gay)
   She listens to the High Priest as he expounds the Egyptian religion, and she promises to take part in certain ceremonies; she bids the Philosopher admit to the School, Egiras of Samos, a young student of ability; she exhorts the Architect to hasten the building of the temple of Hermonthis; and asks the Savant how many new volumes have been added to the Library to replace those that were burnt, etc. (1.84)

3 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 2373
   explorer and archæologist; educated at Repton school and Wadham College, Oxford; B.A., 1875; entered Lincoln's Inn, 1874; travelled abroad; studied local traditions and customs in Karpathos, Samos, and Thasos, 1885-7, and engaged in archæological research on coast of Asia Minor, 1888-9, Bahrein Islands, 1889, Cilicia Tracheia, 1890, Mashonaland, 1891, Abyssinia, 1893, and the Arabian peninsula, 1893-7; published works relating to his travels. (5.06)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter D, entry 8233
   writer; M.A. Oxford, 1659; fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1660; chaplain to the English ambassador at Constantinople, 1664-1672; translated Georginos's ‘Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos,’ 1678. [xiv. (3.09)

3. Augustus J. C. Hare, Volume 2: Walks in London chapter 4, page 153
   It was under the jurisdiction of the Greek Archbishop of Samos, and was dedicated to the Virgin because of her famous grotto in that island. (2.51)

201 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 20000
   SAMOS, KASTRO (9.20)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 22719
   SAMOS, HERAION (9.20)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 22694
   SAMOS, HERAION (8.96)

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1 from Boyle Work Diaries

1. Robert Boyle (1627-91), Work-diary XXXVI (Accounts of conversations with travellers and virtuosi on natural phenomena, 1685-91) entry 24
   I askt if ever he us'd any sponge with oyle in his Mouth; it was answered he did not, being bred from a childe in the Isle of Samos of whichwhence he was a native and where their chief trade to dive fetch up sponges from the bottom of the sea which is there very deep, in so much that he was sometimes forc'd to dive 40 fathom to come att them or 50 if not 60 fathoms to come att them he us'd no weight to help him to sink but throw himself into the sea with his head downwards and his heels upward he said he could see, tho not far yet clearly enough in the bottom of the sea att Smyrna, but things appeared to him him as if he saw them thorough a glass, I askt whither his Eyes were red to which the Consul answer'd, that he observed no such thinge, but that his eyes lookt strangely, as if they had been cas'd over with glass, and he complained being att the bottom that he was not able to shut his eye lids. (1.94)