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TRIAL OF TIMOTHEUS. 15J, ing work for them on the farms of the Korkyraeans, where there must doubtless have been ample necessity for repairs after the devastations of Mnasippus , while he crossed over to Akarnania with his peltasts and hoplites, and there obtained service with the townships friendly to Athens against such others as were friendly to Sparta ; especially against the warlike inhabitants of the strong town called Thyrieis. 1 The happy result of the Korkyraean expedition, imparting uni- versal satisfaction at Athens, was not less beneficial to Timotheus than to Iphikrates. It was in November, 373 B. c., that the for- mer, as well as his quaestor or military treasurer Antimachus, un- derwent each his trial. Kallistratus, having returned home, pleaded against the quaestor, perhaps against Timotheus also, as one of the accusers ; 2 though probably in a spirit of greater gentleness and moderation, in consequence of his recent joint success and of the general good temper prevalent in the city. And while the edge of the accusation against Timotheus was thus blunted, the defence was strengthened not merely by numerous citizen friends speak- ing in his favor with increased confidence, but also by the unu- sual phenomenon of two powerful foreign supporters. At the re- quest of Timotheus, both Alketas of Epirus, and Jason of Pherae, came to Athens a little before the trial, to appear as witnesses in his favor. They were received and lodged by him in his house in the Hippodamian Agora, the principal square of the Peirasus. And as he was then in some embarrassment for want of money, he found it necessary to borrow various articles of finery in order to do them honor, clothes, bedding, and two silver drinking bowls, from Pasion, a wealthy banker near at hand. These two important witnesses would depose to the zealous service and esti- mable qualities of Timotheus ; who had inspired them with warm interest, and had been the means of bringing them into alliance with Athens ; an alliance, which they had sealed at once by con- veying Stesikles and his division across Thessaly and Epirus to Korkyra. The minds of the dikastery would be powerfully af- fected by seeing before them such a man as Jason of Phera*, at that moment the most powerful individual in Greece ; and we are 1 Xen. Hellen. iv, 2, 37, 38. 2 Demosthen. coct. Timoth. c. 9, p. 1197, 1198. 7*