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 162 HISTORY OF GREECE. to say, except chat he should give himself no farther trouble, tow that his command had been transferred to another. Kallikratidas soon found that the leading Lacedaemonians in Ihe fleet, gained over to the interests of his predecessor, openly murniurodat his arrival, and secretly obstructed all his measures; upon which he summoned them together, and said : " I, for my part, am quite content to remain at home ; and if Lysander, or any one else, pretends to be a better admiral than I am, I have nothing to say against it. But sent here as I am by the authori ties at Sparta to command the fleet, I have no choice except to execute their orders in the best way that I can. You now know how far my ambition reaches ; ' you know also the murmurs whicii are abroad against our common city (for her frequent change of admirals). Look to it, and give me your opinion. Shall I stay where I am, or shall I go home, and communicate what has happened here ? " This remonstrance, alike pointed and dignified, produced its full effect. Every one replied, that it was his duty to stay and undertake the command. The murmurs and cabals were from that moment discontinued. His next embarrassments arose from the manoeuvre of Lysan- der in paying back to Cyrus all the funds from whence the con- tinuous pay of the army was derived. Of course this step was admirably calculated to make every one regret the alteration of command. Kallikratidas, who had been sent out without funds, in full reliance on the unexhausted supply from Sardis, now found himself compelled to go thither in person and solicit a renewal of the bounty. But Cyrus, eager to manifest in every way his partiality for the last admiral, deferred receiving him, first for two days, then for a farther interval, until the patience of Ksllikratidas was wearied out, so that he left Sardis in disgust without an interriaw. So intolerable to his feelings was the humiliation of thus begging at the palace gates, that he bitterly deplored those miserable dissensions among the Greeks which constrained both parties to truckle to the foreigner for money ; swearing that, if he survived the year's campaign, he would use 1 Xcnoph. Hellen. i, 6, 5. v/zetf 6e, irpbf a l} re (ptAoriftoiJftai, K32 7 Ta <tff-s yap ofr-a, uovep nal kyb vpj3ovfavT, etc.