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J 1 1 HISTORY OF GREECE. similar appeals to the generosity of their soldiers. But it is nol the less certain, that the new constant paymaster now introduced, gave fearful odds to the Spartan cause. The good pay and hearty cooperation which the Peloponne- sians now enjoyed from Pharnabazus, only made them the more indignant at the previous deceit of Tissaphernes. Under the in- fluence of this sentiment, they readily lent aid to the inhabitants of Antandrus in expelling his general Arsakes with the Persian garrison. Arsakes had recently committed an act of murderous perfidy, under the influence of some unexplained pique, against the Delians established at Adramyttium : he had summoned their principal citizens to take part as allies in an expedition, and had caused them all to be surrounded, shot down, and massacred during the morning meal. Such an act was more than sufficient to excite hatred and alarm among the neighboring Antandrians, who invited a body of Peloponnesian hoplites from Abydos, across the mountain range of Ida, by whose aid Antandrus was liberated from the Persians. 1 In Miletus, as well as in Knidus, Tissaphernes had already experienced the like humiliation : 2 Lichas was no longer alive to back his pretensions : nor do we hear that he obtained any result from the complaints of his envoy Gaulites at Sparta. Under these circumstances, he began to fear that he had incurred a weight of enmity which might prove seriously mischievous, nor was he without jealousy of the popularity and possible success of Pharnabazus. The delusion respecting the Phenician fleet, now that Mindarus had openly broken with him and quitted Miletus, was no longer available to any useful purpose. Accordingly, he dismissed the Phenician fleet to their own homes, pretending to have received tidings that the Phenician towns were endangered by sadden attacks from Arabia and Egypt ; 3 while he himself quitted Aspendus to revisit Ionia, as well as to go forward to the Hellespont, for the purpose of renewing personal intercourse with the dissatisfied Peloponnesians. He wished, while trying again 1 Thucyd. viii, 108 ; Diodor. xiii, 42. * Thucyd. viii, 109. 3 Diodor. xiii, 46. This is the statement of Diodorus, and seems prob- able enough, though he makes a strange confusion in the Persian affairs of this year, leaving out the name of Tissaphernes, and jumbling the acts of Tissaphernes with the name of Pharnabazus.