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 GRECIAN CONFEDEBACY UNDER ATHENS. 335 that Lis most distinguished rival should be absent on foreign ser- vice,' so as not to interfere with his influence at home. Accord- ingly, Kimon equipped a fleet of two hundred triremes, from Athens and her confederates, and set sail for Cyprus, from whence he despatched sixty ships to Egypt, at the request of the insurgent prince Amyrtajus, who was still maintaining himself against the Persians amidst the fens, — while with the remaining armament he laid siege to Kitium. In the prosecution of this siege, he died, either of disease or of a wound. The armament, under his successor, Anaxikrates, became so embarrassed for want of provisions that they abandoned the undertaking alto- gether, and went to fight the Phenician and Kilikian fleet near Salamis, in Cyprus. They were here victorious, first on sea, and afterwards on land, though probably not on the same day, as at the Eurymedon ; after which they returned home, followed by the sixty ships which had gone to Egypt for the purpose of aid- ing Amyrtaeus."2 From this time forward no farther operations were undertaken by Athens, and her confederacy against the Persians. And it appears that a convention was concluded between them, whereby the Great King on his part promised two things : To leave free, undisturbed, and untaxed, the Asiatic maritime Greeks, not sending troops within a given distance of the coast : to refrain from sending any ships of war either westward of Phaselis (others place the boundary at the Chelidonean islands, rather more to the westward) or within the Kyanean rocks at the confluence ' Plutarch, Perikles, c. 10, and Reipublic. Gerend. Prsecep. p. 812. An understanding to this effect between the two rivals is so natural, that we need not resort to the supposition of a secret agreement concludsd be- tween them through the mediation of Elpinike, sister of Kimon, which Plutarch had read in some authors. The charms as well as the intrigues of Elpinike appear to have figured conspicuously in the memoirs of Athe- nian biographers : they were employed by one party as a means of calum- niating Kimon, by the other for discrediting Perikles. general Anaxikrates. He affirms farther that Kimon lived not only to take Kitium and Mallus, but also to gain these two victories. Bat the au- thority of Thucydidfis, superior on every ground to Diodorus, is more par- ticularly superior as to the death of Kimon, with whom he was connected by relationship.
 * Thucyd. i, 112 ; Diodorus, xii, 13. Diodorus mentions the name of the