sentences:  In the civil struggles that followed, Arcesilaus was defeated and fled to the Greek island of Samos, while his mother fled to the court of king Euelthon in Salamis, Cyprus.Pheretima sought troops from the king of Salamis, but he refused to agree to her request.In Samos, Arcesilaus recruited men for his army by promising to grant them land in Cyrene.