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 110 HISTORY OF GREECE. eracy, two other colleagues, of whom we now hear for the first time Timotheus sen of Konon, and Kalli stratus the most celebrated orator of his tima. 1 The abilities of Kallistratus were not military at all ; while Timotheus and Chabrias were men of distinguished military merit But in acquiring new allies and attracting depu- ties to her proposed congress, Athens stood in need of persuasive appeal, conciliatory dealing, and substantial fairness in all her prop- ositions, not less than of generalship. We are told that Timothe- us, doubtless as son of the liberator Konon, from the recollections of the battle of Knidus was especially successful in procuring new adhesions ; and probably Kallistratus, 2 going round with him to the different islands, contributed by his eloquence not a little to the same result. On their invitation, many cities entered as con- countrymen. Demosthenes does not talk of Iphikrates as being uncom- fortable in Athens, or anxious to get out of it; see Orat. cont. Meidiam, p. 535, s. 83. Again, as to the case of Konon and his residence in Cyprus ; it is truly surprising to see this fact cited as an illustration of Athenian jealousy or ill-temper. Konon went to Cyprus immediately after the disaster of JEgos- potami, and remained there, or remained away from Athens, for eleven years (405-393 B. c.) until the year after his victory at Knidus. It will be recol lected that he was one of the six Athenian generals who commanded the fleet at JEgospotami. That disaster, while it brought irretrievable ruin upon Athens, was at the same time such as to brand with well-merited infamy the generals commanding. Konon was so far less guilty than his colleagues, as lie was in a condition to escape with eight ships when the rest were cap- tured. But he could not expect, and plainly did not expect, to be able to show his face again in Athens, unless he could redeem the disgrace by some signal fresh service. He nobly paid this debt to his country, by the victory of Knidus in 394 B. c. ; and then came back the year afterwards, to a grate- ful and honorable welcome at Athens. About a year or more after this, he went out again as envoy to Persia in the service of his country. He was there seized and imprisoned by the satrap Tiribazus, but contrived to make his escape, and died at Cyprus, as it would appear, about 390 B. c. Noth- ing therefore can be more unfounded than the allegation of Theopompus, " that Konon lived abroad at Cyprus, because he was afraid of unde- served ill-temper from the public at Athens." For what time Timotheus may have lived at Lesbos, we have no means of saying. But from the year 370 B. c. down to his death, we hear of him so frequently elsewhere, in the service of his country, that his residence cannot have been long. 1 JEschines, Fals. Leg. c. 40, p. 283. term 6povf, is expressly ascribed to Kallistratus. Harpokration in Voce
 * The employment of the new word avvru!; eif, instead of the unpopular