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 282 HISTORY OF GREECE. lamis in Cyprus, 1 not only provided many triremes, but served himself, personally, on board. It was about the month of July, 394 B. c., that Pharnabazus and Konon brought their united fleet to the south-western corner of Asia Minor ; first, probably, to the friendly island of Rhodes, next, off Loryma 2 and the mountain called Dorion on the peninsula of Knidus. 3 Peisander, with the fleet of Sparta and her allies, sailed out from Knidus to meet them, and both parties prepared for a battle. The numbers of the Lacedaemonians are reported by JDiodorus at eighty-five triremes ; those of Konon and Pharna- bazus at above ninety. But Xenophon, without particularizing the number on either side, seems to intimate the disparity as far greater ; stating that the entire fleet of Peisander was considera- bly inferior even to the Grecian division under Konon, without reckoning the Phoenician ships under Pharnabazus. 4 In spite of such inferiority, Peisander did not shrink from the encounter. Though a young man without military skill, he possessed a full measure of Spar tan courage and pride ; moreover, since the Spar- tan maritime empire was only maintained by the assumed superior- may have been induced (like DemokGdcs of Kroton, one hundred and twenty years before) to promote the views of Konon in order to get for himself this permission. In the meagre abstract of Ktesias given by Photius (c. 63) mention ig made of some Lacedaemonian envoys who were now going up to the Persian court, and were watched or detained on the way. This mission can hardly have taken place before the battle of Knidus ; for then Agesilaus was in the full tide of success, and contemplating the largest plans of aggression against Persia. It must have taken place, I presume, after the battle. 1 Isokrates, Or. ix, (Euagoras) s. 67. Evayopou 6e avrov re napaa- XOVTOC, Kal TTJS dvvu/ieuQ TJJV Tr'XelffTTjv irapaaKEvaaavros. Compare s. 83 of the same oration. Compare Pausanias, i, 3, 1. It is hardly necessary to remark, that the word Chersonesus here (and ifi xiv, 89) does not mean the peninsula of Thrace commonly known by that name, forming the European side of the Hellespont, but the peninsula on which Knidus is situated. 3 Pausan. vi, 3, 6. irtpi Kvidov Kal opof rb Awptov 6t>opa6fievov. elvai. Kovuva <5e, rd 'E^TjvtKov tyovra, TTa%'&at Ifnrpoa&ev avrov. 'Av- nTraparafa/xEvov de rov Heiauvtipov, Kal TroAi) k"karrdvuv airy TUV VEUV Qav e i a C>v ruv avrov TOV yuerd Kovwvof etc.
 * Diodor. xiv, 83. 6ieTpij3ov nepl Aupv/ia r^f Xepaovyoov.
 * Xen. Hellen. iv, 3, 12. $apvdfiaov, vavapx^v 6Vra, i>v raif Qotviaaits