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366 366 HISTORY OL- 1 u.-^ECE. for which purpose Tissaphernes sent an envoy to Sparta, in con- junction with those of the Chians and Erythraeans. He invited the Lacedaemonians to conclude an alliance with the Great King, for joint operations against the Athenian empire in Asia ; promis- ing to furnish pay and maintenance for any forces which they might send, at the rate of one drachma per day for each man of the ship's crews. 1 He farther hoped by means of this aid to reduce Amorges the revolted son of the late satrap Pissuthnes, who was established in the strong maritime town of lasus, with a Grecian mercenary force and a considerable treasure, and was in alliance with Athens. The Great King had sent down a peremptory mandate, that Amorges should be either brought prisoner to Susa or slain. At the same moment, though without any concert, there arrived at Sparta Kalligeitus and Timagoras, two Grecian exiles in the service of Pharnabazus, bringing propositions of a similar charac- ter from that satrap, whose government 2 comprehended the coast lands north of JEolis, from the Euxine and Propontis, to the northeast corner of the Elaeatic gulf. Eager to have the assist- ance of a Lacedaemonian fleet in order to detach the Hellespon- tine Greeks from Athens, and realize the tribute required by the court of Susa, Pharnabazus was at the same time desirous of forestalling Tissaphernes as the medium of Alliance between Sparta and the Great King. The two missions having thus ar- rived simultaneously at Sparta, a strong competition arose betweeo them, one striving to attract the projected expedition to Chios, the olher to the Hellespont : 3 for which latter purpose, Kalligeitus ]vi6(jv irokeuv ov Swufievof irpuaaea-dai inufai/.Tjae. Tot'f re oiiv (j>6poi'f ofjii^e Koptelcr&at KaKuaaq rot)f 'A.dj)vaiovf, etc. I have already discussed this important passage at some length, in its bearing upon the treaty concluded thirty-seven years before this time be- tween Athens and Persia. See the note to volume v, chap, xlv, pp. 337-339, of this History. 1 Thncyd. viii, 29. Kat ftrjvbf /*ev rpotf/v, ucnrep VK eery Iv ry AaKedaiftovi, if Spax^rjv 'A TTIKIJV tudoru nuaaif raff vaval dtidune, rot 6c /.OL~O> xpuvov tfiovXero rpujiBohov 6i66vai, etc. 8 The satrapy of Tissaphernes extended as far north as Antan'^tv) and Adramyttium (Thucyd. viii, 10S). 3 Thucyd. viii, 6.