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 364 HISTORY OF GREECE. island, but was compelled to halt at Knidus. Fortunately, Teleu- tias the Lacedaemonian was now in the Corinthian Gulf with a fleet of twelve triremes, which were no longer required there ; since Agesilaus and he had captured Lechaeum a few months before, and destroyed the maritime force of the Corinthians in those waters. He was now directed to sail with his squadron out of the Corinthian Gulf across to Asia, to supersede Ekdikus, and take the command of the whole fleet for operations off Rhodes. On passing by Samos, he persuaded the inhabitants to embrace the cause of Sparta, and to furnish him with a few ships ; after which he went onward to Knidus, where, superseding Ekdikus, he found himself at the head of twenty-seven triremes. 1 In his way from Knidus to Rhodes, he accidentally fell in with the Athenian admiral Philokrates, conducting ten triremes to Cyprus to the aid of Evagoras in his struggle against the Persians. He was fortu- nate enough to carry them all as prisoners into Knidus, where he sold the whole booty, and then proceeded with his fleet, thus aug- mented to thirty-seven sail, to Rhodes. Here he established a fortified post, enabling the oligarchical party to carry on an active civil war. But he was defeated in a battle, his enemies being decidedly the stronger force in the island, and masters of all the cities. 2 1 Xen. Hellen. iv, 8, 23. Diodoras (xiv, 97) agrees in this number of twenty-seven triremes, and n the fact of aid having been obtained from Samos, which island Was per- suaded to detach itself from Athens. But he recounts the circumstances 01 a very different manner. He represents the oligarchical party in Rhodes is having risen in insurrection, and become masters of the island ; he does not name Teleutias, but Eudokimus (Ekdikus ?), Diphilus (Diphridas ?), and Philodikus, as commanders. The statement of Xenophon deserves the greater credence, in my judg- ment. His means of information, as well as his interest, about Teleutias (the brother of Agesilaus) were considerable. Although the three ancient Rhodian cities (Lindus, lalysus, and Kamei- rus) had coalesced (see Diodor. xiii, 75) a few years before into the great city of Rhodes, afterwards so powerful and celebrated, yet they still con- tinued to exist, and apparently as fortified places. For Xenophon speaks of the democrats in Rhodes as rof re TT 6 A t f exovraf, etc. Whether the Philokrates here named as Philokrates son of Ephialles, it the same person as the Philokrates accused in the Thirtieth oration of Ly-
 * Xen. Hellen. iv, 8, 24-26.