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83 85] TISSAPHERNES AND HERMOCRATES 397 this proceeding tiie allies approved, especially the Syra- cusans ; Lichas, however, was displeased, and said that the Milesians and the inhabitants of the King's country should submit to the necessary humiliation, and manage to keep on good terms with Tissapheriies until the war was well over. His conduct on this and on other occa- sions excited a strong feeling against him among the Milesians; and afterwards, when he fell sick and died, they would not let him be buried where his Lacedae- monian comrades would have laid him. While the Lacedaemonians were quarrelling in this 85 manner with Astyochus and Tissa- , n/r- t • ^ r t Mttidants SHCceeiis phernes, Mmdarus arrived from Lace- Astyochus. Tissa- daemon ; he had been appointed to phcmcs sends an envoy succeed Astyochus, who surrendered '° Sparta, who is to defend htm against to him the command of the fleet and Hermonates and the sailed home. Tissaphernes sent with Milesians. Malignity him an envoy, one of his own atten- o/Tissaphemes towards . Hernioaates. dants, a Carian named Gaulites, who spoke both Greek and Persian'^. He was instructed to complain of the destruction of the fort by the Milesians, and also to defend Tissaphernes against their charges. For he knew that Milesian envoys were going to Sparta chiefly to accuse him, and Hermocrates with them, who would explain how he, aided by Alcibiades, was playing a double game and ruining the Peloponnesian cause. Now Tissaphernes owed Hermocrates a grudge ever since they quarrelled about the payment of the sailors^'. And when afterwards he had been exiled from Syracuse, and other generals, Potamis, Myscon, and Demarchus, came to take the command of the Syracusan ships at Miletus <', Tissa- phernes attacked him with still greater violence in his exile, declaring among other things that Hermocrates had asked him for money and had been refused, and that this " Cp. iv. 109 med. ^ Cp. viii. 45 med. •" Cp. Xen Hell. i. I. 27 foil.