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DEATH OF GOKGOPAS. 375 made agreement with another squadron and a body of hoplitea under Demaenetus ; who arrived at daybreak and landed at _ZEgi- na at a point called Tripyrgia, about two miles distant from the Herakleion, but farther removed from the city. As soon as their arrival became known, Gorgopas hastened out of the city to repel them, with all the troops he could collect, -ZEginetans as well as marines out of the ships of war, and eight Spartans who hap- pened to be his companions in the island. In their march from the city to attack the new comers, they had to pass near the Hera- kleion, and therefore near the troops in ambush ; who, as soon aa Gorgopas and those about him had gone by, rose up suddenly and attacked them in the rear. The stratagem succeeded not lesa completely than that of Iphikrates at Abydos against Anaxibius. Gorgopas and the Spartans near him were slain, the rest were defeated, and compelled to flee with considerable loss back to the city. 1 After this brilliant success, Chabrias pursued his voyage to Cy- prus, and matters appeared so secure on the side of ./Egina, that Demasnetus also was sent to the Hellespont to reinforce Iphi- krates. For some time indeed, the Lacedaemonian ships at -ZEgina did nothing. Eteonikus, who was sent as successor to Gorgopas, 2 could neither persuade nor constrain the seamen to go aboard, since he had no funds, while their pay was in arrears ; so that Athens with her coast and her trading- vessels remained altogether unmolested. At length the Lacedaemonians were obliged to send again to ^Egina Teleutias, the most popular and best-beloved of all their commanders, whom the seamen welcomed with the utmost delight. Addressing them under the influence of this first impres- sion, immediately after he had offered sacrifice, he told them plainly that he had brought with him no money, but that he had come to put them in the .way of procuring it ; that he should himself touch nothing until they were amply provided, and should require of them 'jo bear no more hardship or fatigue than he went through himself; that the power and prosperity of Sparta had all been purchased by willingly braving danger, as well as toil, in the cause of duty ; that it became valiant men to seek their pay, not by 1 Xen. Hellen. v, 1, 12, 13. 8 So we may conclude from Xcn. Hellen. v, 1, 13; Demsmetus is found at the Hellespont v, 1, 26.