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 TISSAPHERXES BREAKS THE TRUCE. 2ol trapy of Pharnabazus, comprising the territory called Phrygia, in the neighborhood of the Propontis and the Hellespont. 1 The army under Tissaphernes had been already powerful at the moment when his timidity induced him to conclude the first armis- tice with Derkyllidas. But additional reinforcements, received since the conclusion of the second and more recent armistice, had raised him to such an excess of confidence, that even before the stipulated three months had expired, he sent to insist on the imme- diate departure of Agesilaus from Asia, and to proclaim war forthwith, if such departure were delayed. While this message, accompanied by formidable reports of the satrap's force, filled the army at Ephesus with mingled alarm and indignation, Agesilaus accepted the challenge with cheerful readiness ; sending word back that he thanked the satrap for perjuring himself in so flagrant a manner, as to set the gods against him and ensure their favor to the Greek side. 2 Orders were forthwith given, and contingents summoned from the Asiatic Greeks, for a forward movement southward, to cross the Mseander, and attack Tissaphernes in Ka- ria, where he usually resided. The cities on the route were required to provide magazines, so that Tissaphernes, fully antici- pating attack in this direction, caused his infantry to cross into Karia, for the purpose of acting on the defensive ; while he kept bis numerous cavalry in the plain of the Mseander, with a view to overwhelm Agesilaus, who had no cavalry, in his march over that level territory towards the Karian hills and rugged ground. But the Lacedaemonian king, having put the enemy on this false scent, suddenly turned his march northward towards Phrygia and the satrapy of Pharnabazus. Tissaphernes took no pains to aid his brother satrap, who on his side had made few preparations for de- fence. Accordingly Agesilaus, finding little or no resistance, took many towns and villages, and collected abundance of provisions, plunder, and slaves. Profiting by the guidance of the revolted Spithridates, and marching as little as possible over the plains, he carried on lucrative and unopposed incursions as far as the neigh- borhood of Daskylium, the residence of the satrap himself, near the Propontis. Near the satrapic residence, however, his small 1 Xen. Hcllcn. iii, 4, 10. 9.
 * Xen. Hcllen. iii, 4, 11. 12- Xen. ! gesil. i, 12-14; Plutarch, Agesil