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 148 HISTORY OF GREECE. On departing, it appears, he had given orders to such of the allies as were intended to form part of the expedition, to assemble at Kalauria (an island off Trrezen, consecrated to Poseidon) where ne would himself come and take them up to proceed onward. Pursuant to such order, several contingents mustered at this island, among them the Boeotians, who sent several triremes, though in the preceding year it had been alleged against them that they contributed nothing to sustain the naval exertions of Athens. But Timotheus stayed out a long time. Reliance was placed upon him, and upon the money which he was to bring home, for the pay of the fleet ; and the unpaid triremes accordingly fell into distress and disorganization at Kalauria, awaiting his return. 1 In the Athenians were very anxious for it (Xen. Hellen. vi, 1, 10). But in No- vember 373 B. c., Jason (as well as Alketas) appears as the established ally of Athens ; not as then becoming her ally for the first time, but as so com- pletely an established ally, that he comes to Athens for the express purpose of being present at the trial of Timotheus and of deposing in his favor 'A$iKopevov yilp 'A/l^erou KOI 'lauofOf d>f TOVTOV (Timotheus) ev r Mat//a- fiijvi r> for' 'Aoretov upxov-of, en I TOV ayuva TOV TOVTOV, vTuv avTL> Kal KaTayopevuv elf rrp> otKiav -rijv EV Tleipaiei, etc. (Demosthen. adv. Timoth. c. 5, p. 1190). Again, AVTOV 6e TOVTOV (Timo- theus) k^aiTov HEVU v fiev TUV &nrj/<5uv tcdi OIKE'IUV O.VTU arrdv-uv, irt tie rfal 'A.%KeTOV xal 'Idaovof, avjijiuxw OVTUV v/ztv, [ioki fiev tireicr&TjTs uQelvai (Demosthen. ib. c, 3, p. 1187.) We see from hence, therefore, that the first alliance between Jason and Athens had been con- tracted in the early part of 373 B. c. ; we see farther that it had been con tracted by Timotheus in his preliminary cruise, which is the only reason- able way of explaining the strong interest felt by Jason as well as by Alketas in the fate of Timotheus, inducing them to take the remarkable step of coming to Athens to promote his acquittal. It was Timotheus who had first made the alliance of Athens with Alketas (Diodor. xv, 36 ; Cor- nel. Nepos, Timoth. c. 2), a year of two before. Combining all the circumstances here stated, I infer with confidence, that Timotheus, in his preliminary cruise, visited Jason, contracted alliance between him and Athens, and prevailed upon him to forward the division of Stesikles across Thessaly to Epirus and Korkyra. In this oration of Demosthenes, there are three or four exact dates men- tioned, which are a great aid to the understanding of the historical events thens the repayment of money lent to him by Pasiou the ban ter, father of Apollodorus ; and the dates specified are copied from entries made by Pa- rion at the time in his commercial books (c. 1. p. 1186 ; c. 9. p. 1197). 1 Demosthen. adv. Timoth. c. 3. p. 1 1 88. afiicdov /zev TO arpuTevua o-
 * f the time. That oration is spoken by Apollodorus, claiming from Timo-