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 298 HISTORY OF GREECE. previous lands ; reinforced by bands of new emigrants. And Timotheus, having once got footing at Sestus and Krithote, soon extended his acquisitions to Ekeus and other places ; whereby Athens was emboldened publicly to claim the whole Chersonese, or at least most part of it, as her own ancient possession, from its extreme northern boundary at a line drawn across the isthmus north of Kardia, down to Ekeus at its southern extremity. 1 This transfer of lands in Samos to Athenian proprietors, com- bined with the resumption of the Chersonese, appears to have excited a strong sensation throughout Greece, as & revival of ambitious tendencies on the part of Athens, and a manifest depart- ure from those disinterested professions which she had set forth in 378 B. c. Even in the Athenian assembly, a citizen named Ky- dias pronounced an emphatic protest against the emigration of the kleruchs to Samos. 3 However, obnoxious as the measure was to criticism, yet having been preceded by a conquering siege and the expulsion of many native proprietors, it does not seem to have involved Athens in so much real difficulty as the resumption of her old rights in the Chersonese. Not only did she here come into conflict with independent towns, like Kardia, 3 which resisted her pretensions, and with resident proprietors whom she was to aid her citizens in dispossessing, but also with a new enemy ; Kotys, king of Thrace. That prince, claiming the Chersonese as Thracian territory, was himself on the point of seizing Sestus, when Agesilaus or Ariobarzanes drove him away, 4 to make room for Timotheus and the Athenians. It has been already mentioned, that Kotys, 5 the new Thracian enemy, but previously the friend and adopted citizen, of Athens, was father-in-law of the Athenian general Iphikrates, whom he had enabled to establish and people the town and settlement called Drys, on the coast of Thrace. Iphikrates had been em- ployed by the Athenians for the last three or four years on the coasts of Macedonia and Chalkidike, and especially against Am- 1 See Demosthenes, De Halonneso, p. 86, s. 40-42 ; ^Eschines De Fals Legat. 264, s. 74. 2 Aristotel. Khetoric. ii, 8, 4. 3 Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 677, s. 201 ; p 679, 8. 20 4 Xenophon, Enc. Agesil. ii, 26.
 * Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 660, s. 141