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 116 HISTORY OF GREECE. (411 B.C.), he did not reach the Hellespont un'il the month 01 November. 1 As soon as the Phenician fleet had disappeared, Alkibiades returned with his thirteen triremes from Phaselis to Samos. He too, like Tissaphemes, made the proceeding subservient to deceit of his own : he took credit with his countrymen for having enlisted the good-will of the satrap more strongly than ever in Ihe cause of Athens, and for having induced him to abandon his intention of bringing up the Phenician fleet. 3 At this time Dori- eus was at Rhodes with thirteen triremes, having been despatched by Mindarus, before his departure from Miletus, in order to stifle the growth of a philo-Athenian party in the island. Pei'- haps the presence of this force may have threatened the Athenian interest in Kos and Halikarnassus ; for we now find Alkibiades going to these places from Samos, with nine fresh triremes in addition to his own thirteen. He erected fortifications at the town of Kos, and planted in it an Athenian officer and garrison : from Halikarnassus he levied large contributions ; upon what pretence, or whether from simple want of money, we do not know. It was towards the middle of September that he returned to Samos. 3 At the Hellespont, Mindarus had been reinforced after the battle of Kynossema by the squadron from Eubcea, at least by that portion of it which had escaped the storm off Mount Athos. The departure of the Peloponnesian fleet from Euboea enabled the Athenians also to send a few more ships to their fleet at Sestos. Thus ranged on the opposite sides of the strait, the two fleets came to a second action, wherein the Peloponnesians, under Agesandridas, had the advantage ; yet with little fruit. It was about the month of October, seemingly, that Dorieus with his fourteen triremes came from Rhodes to rejoin Mindarus at 1 Xenoph. Hellen. i, 1, 9. adds over the satrap as if it were real. Plutarch (Alkibiad. c. 26) speaka in more qualified language. 3 Thucyd. viii, 108. irpbf TO fitronupov. Haack and Sievers (see Sie- vers, Comment, ad Xenoph. Hellen. p. 103) construe this as indicating ths middle of August, which I think too carlj in the year.
 * Thucyd. viii, 108. Diodoras (xiii,38) talks of this influence of AlkibI