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 270 HISTORY OF GREECE. the equipment of the remainder was yet complete, had ad ancea along the southern coast of Asia Minor to Kaunus, at the south- western corner of the peninsula, on the frontier of Karia and Ly- kia. In this port he was besieged by the Lacedaemonian fleet of one hundred and twenty triremes under Pharax. But a Persian reinforcement strengthened the fleet of Konon to eighty sail, and put the place out of danger ; so that Pharax, desisting from the siege, retired to Rhodes. The neighborhood of Konon, however, who was now with his fleet of eighty sail near the Chersonesus of Knidus, emboldened the Rhodians to revolt from Sparta. It was at Rhodes that the general detestation of the Lacedaemonian empire, disgraced in so many different cities by the local dekarchies and by the Spartan harmosts, first manifested itself. And such was the ardor of the Rhodian population, that their revolt took place while the fleet of Pharax was (in part at least) actually in the harbor, and they drove him out of it. 1 Konon, whose secret encouragements had helped to excite this insurrection, presently sailed to Rhodes with his fleet, and made the island his main station. It threw into his hands an unexpected advantage ; for a numerous fleet of vessels arrived there shortly afterwards, sent by Nephareus, the native king of Egypt (which was in revolt against the Persians), with marine stores and grain to the aid of the Lacedaemonians. Not having been apprized of the recent revolt, these vessels en- tered the harbor of Rhodes as if it were still a Lacedaemonian island ; and their cargoes were thus appropriated by Konon and the Rhodians. 2 In recounting the various revolts of the dependencies of Athens which took place during the Peloponnesian war, I had occasion to point out more than once that all of them took place not merely in the absence of any Athenian force, but even at the instigation 1 Diodor. xiv, 79. 'Podioi 6e &c/3a/l6vref rbv T&V Tle'koTTOvvriGLuv aroXov, inrearriaav and AaKeiai/ioviuv, Kai TGV Kcvuva irpoffeSeljavTO ficra rov arohov Travrbc els Tfiv irofav. Compare Androtion apud Pausaniam, vi, 7, 2. cynion. It seems to have been the uniform practice, for the corn-s^ipa coming from Egypt to Greece to halt at Rhodes (Demosthen. cent. Dionjsodc'' p. 1285 : comjare Herodot. ii, 182).
 * Diodor. xiv, 79 ; Justin (vi, 2) calls this native Egyptian king Her-