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4l8 ARSACES AND THE DELIANS [VIII contribution from the inhabitants. Meanwhile the Pelo- ponnesians sailed from Abydos to Elaeus, and recovered as many of their own captured vessels as were still sea- worthy; the rest had been burnt by the Elaeusians. They then sent Hippocrates and Epicles to Euboea to bring up the ships which were there. io8 About the same time Alcibiades sailed back with his thirteen ships -"^ from Caunus and Pha- Alcibiades returns i- , o • i.i .. u u j from T,ssapher.,es, ^ehs to Samos, announcuig that he had tvhoin he professes to prevented the Phoenician fleet from have made a fast friend coming to the assistance of the enemy, of le iieinatis. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ made Tissaphernes a greater friend of the Athenians than ever. He then manned nine additional ships, and exacted large sums of money from the Halicarnassians. He also fortified Cos^ where he left a governor, and towards the autumn returned to Samos. When Tissaphernes heard that the Peloponnesian fleet T- ^, had sailed from Miletus to the Helles- J issapherites mar- ches away to Ionia. The pont, he broke up his camp at Aspendus cruelty and treachery and marched away towards lonia. Now of his l^eutcx^nt Ar. ^ ^ ^^^j^^^ ^f ^j^^ Pcloponncsians saces induce the Antan- ""•^' r drians to obtain a at the Hellespont, the Antandrians, garrison from the ^^j^q ^j-g Acolians, had procurcd from Peloponnesians. ^^^^ ^^ Abydos a forcc of infantry, which they led through Mount Ida and introduced into their city. They were oppressed by Arsaces the Persian, a lieutenant of Tissaphernes. This Arsaces, when the Athenians, wishing to purify Delos, expelled the inhabitants and they settled in Adramyttium c, professing to have a quarrel which he did not wish to declare openly, asked their best soldiers to form an army for him. He then led them out of the town as friends and allies, and, taking advantage of their midday meal, surrounded them with his own troops, and shot them. down. This deed alarmed • Cp. viii. 88 init. Cp. viii. 41 med. <= Cp. v. r.