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ARMISTICE. 221 to fight, but since a conference was demanded, he had no objec- tion to grant it, provided hostages were exchanged. This having been assented to, and a place named for conference on the ensuing day, both armies were simultaneously withdrawn ; the Persians to Tralles, the Greeks to Leukophrys, celebrated for its temple of Artemis Leukophryne. 1 This backwardness on the part of Tissaphernes even at a time when he was encouraged by a brother satrap braver than himself occasioned to the Persians the loss of a very promising moment^ and rescued the Grecian army out of a position of much peril. It helps to explain to us the escape of the Cyreians, and the manner in which they were allowed to cross rivers and pass over the most difficult ground without any serious opposition ; while at the same time it tended to confirm in the Greek mind the same impressions of Persian imbecility as that escape so forcibly suggested. The conference, as might be expected, ended in nothing. Der- kyllidas required on behalf of the Asiatic Greeks complete autono- my, exemption from Persian interference and tribute; while the two satraps on their side insisted that the Lacedaemonian army should be withdrawn from Asia, and the Lacedaemonian harmosta from all the Greco- Asiatic cities. An armistice was concluded, to allow time for reference to the authorities at home ; thus replacing matters in the condition in which they had been at the beginning of the year. 2 Shortly after the conclusion of this truce, Agesilaus, king of Spar- ta, arrived with a large force, and the war in all respects began to assume larger proportions, of which more in the next chapter. But it was not in Asia alone that Sparta had been engaged in war. The prostration of the Athenian power had removed that common bond of hatred and alarm which attached the allies to her headship ; while her subsequent conduct had given positive offence, and had even excited against herself the same fear of unmeasured imperial ambition which had before run so powerfully against Athens. She had appropriated to herself nearly the whole of the Athenian maritime empire, with a tribute scarcely inferior, if at all inferior, in amount. How far the total of one thousand talents was actually realised during each successive year, we are not in a 1 Xen. Hellen. iii, 2, 1 9 ; Diodo :. xiv, 39. 2 Xcn. Hellen. iii, 2, 20,