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 24 HISTORY OF GREECE. phernes and Hieramenes and the sons of Pharnakes, respecting the affairs o? the king and of the Lacedaemonians and their allies. The territory of the king, as much of it as is in Asia, shall belong to the king. Let the king determine as he chooses respecting his own territory. The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall not approach the king's territory with any mischievous purpose, nor shall the king approach that of the Lacedaemonians and their allies with any like purpose. If any one among the Lacedaemo- nians or their allies shall approach the king's territory with mischievous purpose, the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall hinder him : if any one from the king's territory shall approach the Lacedaemonians or their allies with mischievous purpose, the king shall hinder him. Tissaphernes shall provide pay and maintenance, for the fleet now present, at the rate already stipu- lated, until the king's fleet shall arrive ; after that, it shall be at the option of the Lacedaemonians to maintain their own fleet, if they think fit ; or, if they prefer, Tissaphernes shall furnish maintenance, and at the close of the war the Lacedaemonians shall repay to him what they have received. After the king's fleet shall have arrived, the two fleets shall carry on war conjointly, in such manner as shall seem good to Tissaphernes and the Lacedasmonians and their allies. If they choose to close the war with the Athenians, they shall close it only by joint consent." 1 In comparing this third convention with the two preceding, we find that nothing is now stipulated as to any territory except the continent of Asia ; which is insured unreservedly to the king, of course with all the Greek residents planted upon it. But by a diplomatic finesse, the terms of the treaty imply that this is not all the territory which the king is entitled to claim, though nothing is covenanted as to any remainder. 2 Next, this third treaty includes Pharnabazus, the son of Pharnakes, with his satrapy of Daskylium, and Hieramenes, with his district, the extent and position of which we do not know ; while in the former 1 Thucyd. viii, 58. - 1 Thucyd. viii, 58. upav rijv paaiTiiuf, day TTJS 'Afftaf tori, /?a- rivai teal irepl riff X^P a S rfc favTov /?orAet>eru /3a<7J/li)f