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 3 HISTORY OF GREECE. a foreign military force for their protection, to require at the saina time that others should furnish the means of paying it. 1 At the same tune, however, he intimated, by way of keeping up hopes for the future, that Tissaphernes was at present carrying on the war at his own cost ; but if hereafter remittances should arrive from Susa, the full rate of pay would be resumed, with the addition of aid to the Grecian cities in any other way which could be reasonably asked. To this promise was added an assurance that the Phenician fleet was now under equipment, and would shortly be brought up to their aid, so as to give them a superiority which would render resistance hopeless : an assur- ance not merely deceitful but mischievous, since it was employed to dissuade them from all immediate action, and to paralyze their navy during its moments of fullest vigor and efficiency. Even the reduced rate of pay was furnished so irregularly, and the Peloponnesian force kept so starved, that the duplicity of the satrap became obvious to every one, and was only carried through by his bribery to the officers. 2 While Alkibiades, as the confidential agent and interpreter of Tissaphernes, was carrying on this anti-Peloponnesian policy through the autumn and winter of 412-411 B.C., partly during the stay of the Peloponnesian fleet at Miletus, partly after it had moved to Knidus and Rhodes, he was at the same time opening correspondence with the Athenian officers at Samos. His breach with the Peloponnesians, as well as his ostensible position in the service of Tissapherns, were facts well known among the Athe- nian armament ; and his scheme was, to procure both restoration and renewed power in his native city, by representing himself as competent to bring over to her the aid and alliance of Persia, through his ascendency over the mind of the satrap. His hos- 1 Thucyd. viii, 45. Tuf de TroActf deopevac xpijpaTuv airfaaffev, avrbf uvTiAeyuv WTep TOV Tiaaapepvovf, uf oi fiev Xtot avaia%vi>Toi elev, TrAow- cuJTaroi oiref TUV 'EU.i)vuv, sTriKovpip 6e ofiuf au^ofiEvoi. ul-iovai nal rotf aupaoi KOI Tolf xprinaaiv uAAovf inrlp rrjf liteivuv sXev&epiaf Kivdvveveiv. 2 Thucyd. viii, 46. Tiyv TE rpo^v KCIKU tiropi& rotf H3.o7rovvr)aioif nal vavfiaxslv OVK ela uk?iM nal ruf Qoiviaaaf vaijf QUGKUV r/friv /cat IK -xtpibv- rof ayavieladai fytiecpe TU irpayfiara not TJJV UK^V TOV vavriKov cvrCiv fyeiforo, yevofj.evr]v Kal -raw laxvptiv, TU re aA^a, Kara^aviaTspov r) itart iv, ov 7rp