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 g HISTORY OF GREECE. Cyrus, receiving these exiled Milesians with every demonstration of sympathy, immediately got together both an army and a fleet, under the Egyptian Tamos, 1 to besiege Miletus by land and sea. He at the same tune transmitted to court the regular tribute due from these maritime cities, and attempted, through the interest of his mother Parysatis, to procure that they should be transferred from Tissaphernes to himself. Hence the Great King was deluded into a belief that the new levies of Cyrus were only intended for private war between him and Tissaphernes ; an event not uncom- mon between two neighboring satraps. Nor was it displeasing to the court that a suspected prince should be thus occupied at a dis- tance. 2 Besides the army thus collected around Miletus, Cyrus found means to keep other troops within his call, though at a dis- tance and unsuspected. A Lacedaemonian officer named Klear- chus, of considerable military ability and experience, presented himself as an exile at Sardis. He appears to have been ban- ished, (as far as we can judge amidst contradictory statements,) for gross abuse of authority, and extreme tyranny, as Lacedae- monian Hannost at Byzantium, and even for having tried to maintain himself in that place after the Ephors had formally dis- missed him. The known efficiency, and restless warlike appetite of Klearchus, 3 procured for him the confidence of Cyrus, who gave him the large sum of ten thousand Darics, (about 7600), which he employed in levying an army of mercenary Greeks for the defence of the Grecian cities in the Chersonese against the Thra- cian tribes in their neighborhood ; thus maintaining the troops until 1 Xen. Anab. i, 1, 6 ; i, 4, 2. 3 Xen. Anab. i, 1, 9; ii, 6, 3. The statements here contained do not agree with Diodor. xiv, 12 ; while both of them differ from Isokrates (Orat. viii, De Pace, s. 121 ; Or. xii, Panath. s. Ill), and Plutarch, Artaxerxes, c. 6. I follow partially the narrative of Diodorns, so far as to suppose that the tyranny which he mentions was committed by Klearchus as Harmost of Byzantium. We know that there was a Lacedaemonian Hannost in that town, named as soon as the town was taken, by Lysander, after the battle of JEgospotami (Xen. Hellen. ii, 2, 2). This was towards the end of 405 B.C. We know farther, from the Anabasis, that Kleander was Harmost there ,n 400 B. c. Klearchus mav have beer Harmost there in 404 u c.
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