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PROGRESS OF THEBES. 133 and that he also sent home requests for large remittances from the public treasury ; l measures which go to bear out that honorable repugnance to the plunder of friends or neutrals, and care to avoid even the suspicion of plunder, which his panegyrist Isokratea ascribes to him. 2 This was a feature unhappily rare among the Grecian generals on both sides, and tending to become still rarer, from the increased employment of mercenary bands. The demands of Timotheus on the treasury of Athens were not favorably received. Though her naval position was now more brilliant and commanding than it had been since the battle of .ZEgospotami, though no Lacedsemonian fleet showed itself to disturb her in the JEgean, 3 yet the cost of the war began to be seriously felt. Privateers from the neighboring island of JEgina annoyed her commerce, requiring a perpetual coast-guard ; while the contributions from the deputies to the confederate synod were not sufficient to dispense with the necessity of a heavy direct property tax at home. 4 In this synod the Thebans, as members of the confederacy, were represented. 5 Application was made to them to contribute towards the cost of the naval war ; the rather, as it was partly at their instance that the fleet had been sent round to the Ionian Sea. But the Thebans declined compliance, 6 nor were they 1 Xen. Hellen. v, 4, 66; Isokrates, De Permutat. s. 116; Cornelius Ne- pos, Timotheus, c. 2. The advance of seven mina? respectively, obtained by Timotheus from the sixty trierarchs under his command, is mentioned by Demosthenes cont. Timotheum (c. 3, p. 1187). I agree with M. Boeckh (Public Economy of Athens, ii, 24, p. 294) in referring this advance to his expedition to Kor- kyra and other places in the Ionian Sea in 375-374 B.C.; not to his subs'e- quent expedition of 373 B. c., to which Rehdantz, Lachmann, Schlosser, and others would refer it (Vitas Iphicratis, etc. p. 89). In the second expe- dition, it does not appear that he ever had really sixty triremes, or sixty trierarchs, under him. Xenophon (Hellen. v, 4, 63) tells us that the fleet sent with Timotheus to Korkyra consisted of sixty ships ; which is the exact number of trierarchs named by Demosthenes. 2 Isokrates, Orat. De Permutat. s. 128, 131, 135. 3 Isokrates, De Permutat, s. 117 ; Cornel. Nepos, Timoth. c. 2. 4 Xen. Hellen. vi, 2, 1. 6 See Isokrates, Or. xiv, (Plataic.) s. 21, 23, 37. 6 Xen. Hellen. vi, 2, 1. Ql S 1 'A&Tjvaioi, aii^arouevov; fj,ev dpuvrsf did ff^af TCWC Q7i3aiovf, %pf/fiaTa 6' ov av/tpa'hA.cu.evoi'G elf rb vavriK^v, avro) 8