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 INCREASING STRENGTH (,.? THRASYBULUS. 273 Such foreign aid became daily more necessary to them, since the forces of Thrasybulus in Peirrcus grew stronger, before their eyes, in numbers, in arms, and in hope of success ; exertipg themselves, with successful energy, to procure additional arms and shields, though some of the shields, indeed, were no better than wood-work or wicker-work whitened over. 1 Many exiles flocked in to their aid, while others sent donations of money or arms: among the latter, the orator Lysias stood conspicuous, transmitting to Peirreus a present of two hundred shields as well as two thousand drachms in money, and hiring besides three hun- dred fresh soldiers ; while his friend Thrasydceus, the leader of the democratical interest at Elis, was induced to furnish a loan of two talents. 2 Others also lent money ; some Boeotians fur- nished two talents, and a person named Gelarchus contributed -he large sum of five talents, repaid in after times by the people. 3 Proclamation was made by Thrasybulus, that all metics who would lend aid should be put on the footing of isotely, or equal payment of taxes with citizens, exempt from the metic-tax and other special burdens. Within a short time he had got together a considerable force both in heavy-armed and light-armed, and even seventy horsemen ; so that he was in condition to make excursions out of Peiraeus,and to collect wood and provisions. Nor did the Ten venture to make any aggressive movement out of Athens, except so far as to send out the horsemen, who slew or captured strag- glers from the force of Thrasybulus. Lysimachus the hipparch, the same who had commanded under the Thirty at the seizure of the Eleusinian citizens, having made prisoners some young Athe- nians, bringing in provisions from the country for the consumption of the troops in Peiraeus, put them to death, in spite of remon- strances from several even of his own men ; for which cruelty Thrasybulus retaliated, by putting to death a horseman named 1 Xunoph. Hellen. ii, 4, 25. 19-34. Lysias nnd his brother hud carried on a manufactory of shields at Athens. The Thirty had plundered it ; but some of the stock probably escaped. 3 Demosth. cont. Lcptin. c, 32, p. 502 ; Lysias cont. Nftomach. Or. xxx s. 29. VOL. VIII. 12* 180C.
 * Plutarch, Vit. x, Orator, p. 835 ; Lysias, Or. xxxi, cont. Philon. sects