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376 376 HISTORY OF GREECE. It ras at Miletus, immediately after the revolt, that the firs' treaty was concluded between Tissaphernes, on behalf of him self and the Great King, and Chalkideus, for Sparta and her allies. Probably the aid of Tissaphernes was considered neces- sary to maintain the town, when the Athenian fleet was watching it so closely on the neighboring island : at least it is difficult to explain otherwise an agreement so eminently dishonorable as well as disadvantageous to the Greeks. " The Lacedaemonians and their allies have concluded alliance with the Great King and Tissaphernes, on the following con- ditions : The king shall possess whatever territories and cities he himself had, or his predecessors had before him. The king, and the Lacedemonians with their allies, shall jointly hinder the Athenians from deriving either money or other advantages from all those cities which have hitherto furnished to them any such. They shall jointly carry on war against the Athenians, and shall not renounce the war against them, except by joint consent. Whoever shall revolt from the king, shall be treated as an enemy by the Lacedaemonians and their allies ; whoever shall revolt from the Lacedaemonians, shall in like manner be treated as an enemy by the king." ' As a first step to the execution of this treaty, Miletus was handed over to Tissaphernes, who immediately caused a citadel to be erected and placed a garrison within it. 2 If fully carried out, indeed, the terms of the treaty would have made the Great King master not only of all the Asiatic Greeks and all the islanders in the JEgean, but also of all Thessaly and Bocotia, and the full ground which had once been covered by Xerxes. 3 Besides this monstrous stipulation, the treaty farther bound the Lacedaemo- nians to aid the king in keeping enslaved any Greeks who might be under his dominion. Nor did it, on the other hand, secure to them any pecuniary aid from him for the payment of their arma- ment, which was their great motive for courting his alliance. We shall find the Lacedaemonian authorities themselves hereafter refusing to ratify the treaty, on the ground of its exorbitant con- cessions. But it stands as a melancholy evidence of the new 1 Tlmcvd. viii, 18. Thucvd. uii, 84-109
 * Thnoyd. viii 44.