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 J18 HISTOR1 OF GREECE. the winter, sending to Peloponnesus as well as an.ug his allied to solicit reinforcements : in the mean time, he engaged jointly with Pharnabazus in operations by land against various Athenian allies on the continent. The Athenian admirals, on their side, instead of keeping their fleet united to prosecute the victory, were compelled to disperse a large portion of it in flying squadrons, foi collecting money, retaining only forty sail at Sestos ; while Thrasyllus in person went to Athens to proclaim the victory and ask for reinforcements. Pursuant to this request, thirty triremes were sent out under Theramenes ; who first endeavored without success to impede the construction of the bridge between Euboea and Boeotia, and next sailed on a voyage among the islands for the purpose of collecting money. He acquired considerable plunder by descents upon hostile territory, and also extorted money from various parties, either contemplating or supposed to contemplate revolt, among the dependencies of Athens. At Paros, where the oligarchy established by Peisander in the conspiracy of the Four Hundred still subsisted, Theramenes deposed and fined the men who had exercised it, establishing a democracy in their room. From hence he passed to Macedonia, to the assistance and prob- ably into the temporary pay of Archelaus, king of Macedonia, whom he aided for some time in the siege of Pydna ; blocking up the town by sea while the Macedonians besieged it by land. The blockade having lasted the whole winter, Theramenes was sum- moned away before its capture, to join the main Athenian fleet in Thrace : Archelaus, however, took Pydna not long afterwards, and transported the town with its residents from the sea-board to a distance more than two miles inland. 1 We trace in all these proceedings the evidence of that terrible want of money which now drove the Athenians to injustice, extortion, and interference with their allies, such as they had never committed during the earlier years of the war. It is at this period that we find mention made of a fresh intes- tine commotion in Korkyra, less stained, however, with savage enormities than that recounted in the seventh year of the waT. It appears that the oligarchical party in the island, which had ueen for the moment nearly destroyed at that period, had since 1 Diodor. xiii, 47-49.