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 CAPTURE OF ATARNEUS. 219 quarter miles if* length. The work was distributed in portions to dif- ferent sections of the army, competition being excited by rewards for the most rapid and workmanlike execution ; while the Cherso- nesites were glad to provide pay and subsistence for the army, dur- ing an operation which provided security for all the eleven cities, and gave additional value to their lands and harbors. Numerous settlers seem to have now come in, under Lacedaemonian auspices, who were again disturbed, wholly or partially, when the Lace- daemonian maritime empire was broken up a few years afterwards. 1 On returning to Asia in the autumn, after the completion of this work, which had kept his army usefully employed and amply pro- vided during six months, Derkyllidas undertook the siege of Arta- neus, a strong post (on the continental coast eastward of Mitylene) occupied by some Chian exiles, whom the Lacedaemonian admiral Kratesippidas had lent corrupt aid in expelling from their native island a few years before. 2 These men, living by predatory expe- ditions against Chios and Ionia, were so well supplied with provi- sions that it cost Derkyllidas a blockade of eight months before he could reduce it. He placed in it a strong garrison well supplied, that it might serve him as a retreat in case of need, under an Achaean named Drako, whose name remained long terrible from his ravages on the neighboring plain of Mysia. 3 Derkyllidas next proceeded to Ephesus, where orders presently reached him from the ephors, directing him to march into Karia and attack Tissaphernes. The temporary truce which had hitherto provisionally kept off Persian soldiers and tribute-gatherers from the Asiatic Greeks, was now renounced by mutual consent. These Greeks had sent envoys to Sparta, assuring the ephors that Tissa- phernes would be constrained to renounce formally the sovereign rights of Persia, and grant to them full autonomy, if his residence in Karia were vigorously attacked. Accordingly Derkyllidaa marched southward across the Mosander into Karia, while the Lacedgemonian fleet under Pharax coopei-ated along the shore At the same time Tissaphernes, on his side, had received rein forcements from Susa, together with the appointment of generalis girno over all the Persian force in Asia Minor ; upon which Phar- 1 Xen. Hellen. iii, 2, 10; iv, 8, 5. Diodor. xiv, 38.
 * Diodor. xiii, 65.
 * Xen. Hellen. iii, 2, 11 ; Isokrates, Or. iv, (Pancgyr.) s. 167-.