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399 LIC1IAS AND TISSAPIPJIRNES. 39Jj pleasure at his past conduct, but even protested against the tvo conventions concluded by Chalkideus and by Theramenes, as being, both the one and the other, a disgrace to the Hellenic name. By the express terms of the former, and by the implica- tions of the latter, not merely all the islands of the JEgean, but even Thessaly and Bceotia, were acknowledged as subject to Per- sia ; so that Sparta, if she sanctioned such conditions, would be merely imposing upon the Greeks a Persian sceptre, instead of general freedom, for which she professed to be struggling. Lichas, declaring that he would rather renounce all prospect of Persian pay, than submit to such conditions, proposed to negotiate for a fresh treaty upon other and better terms, a proposition which Tissaphernes rejected with so much indignation as to depart with- out settling anything. 1 His desertion did not discourage the Pelopcnnesian counsellors. Possessing a fleet larger than they had ever before had united in Asia, together with a numerous body of allies, they calculated on being able to get money to pay their men without Persian aid ; and an invitation, which they just now received from various powerful men at Rhodes, tended to strengthen such confidence. The island of Rhodes, inhabited by a Dorian population consid- erable in number as well as distinguished for nautical skill, was at this time divided between three separate city governments, as it had been at the epoch of the Homeric Catalogue, Lindus, lalysus, and Kameirus ; for the city called Rhodes, formed by a coalescence of all these three, dates only from two or three years after the period which we have now reached. Invited by several of the wealthy men of the island, the Peloponnesian fleet first attacked Kameirus, the population of which, intimidated by a force of ninety-four triremes, and altogether uninformed of their approach, abandoned their city, which had no defences, and fled to the mountains. 2 All the three Rhodian towns, destitute of 1 Thucyd. viii. 43. 2 Thucyd. viii, 44. Ol 6' e( T'IJV 'Podov, KTriKT}pVKVOfi.Evuv UTT<!> TLJV tivva- ruraruv avSpuv, rr/v ~/vufj.rjv el^ov Tr/leZV, etc. . ..Kat Trpoapal.ovTsr; Kafie'ipu rr/g 'Podia? Trpury, vaval Teaaapai Kal tvvevTjKovra, k f e  6 (3 TJ a a v fiev rot)f Tro^,Aoi)f, OVK EL 6 or a f r <) rpaaao/teva, Kal etpvyov, U?.?MI; re Kal UTEIX'LOTOV ovaijf r^f iroZeuf, etc. We have to remark here, as en former occasions of revolts among tha