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 ALEXANDER OF PHER.E. 369 eral Iphikrates, on this occasion serving his father-in-law against his country. 1 Timotheus is said to have carried on war against Kotys with advantage, and to have acquired for Athens a large plunder. 2 It would appear that his operations were of an aggres- sive character, and that during his command in those regions the Athenian possessions in the Chersonese were safe from Kotys ; for Iphikrates would only lend his aid to Kotys towards defensive warfare ; retiring from his service when he began to attack the Athenian possessions in the Chersonese. 3 We do not know what circumstances brought about the dismissal or retirement of Timotheus from the command. But in the next year, we find Ergophilus as Athenian commander in the Cher- sonese, and Kallisthenes (seemingly) as Athenian commander against Amphipolis. 4 The transmarine affairs of Athens, however, were far from improving. Besides that under the new -general she seems to have been losing strength near the Chersonese, she had now upon her hands a new maritime enemy Alexander of Pherae. A short time previously, he had been her ally against Thebes, but the victories of the Thebans during the preceding year had so completely humbled him, that he now identified his cause with theirs ; sending troops to join the expedition of Epaminondas into Peloponnesus, 5 and equipping a fleet to attack the maritime allies of Athens. His fleet captured the island of Tenos, ravaged several of the other Cyclades, and laid siege to Peparethos. Great alarm prevailed in Athens, and about the end of August (362 B. c.), 6 two months after the battle of Mantinea, 1 Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 664, s. 153. made war on Kotys with such success as to bring into the Athenian trea- sury twelve hundred talents, appears extravagant as to amount ; even if we accept it as generally true. 3 Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 664, s. 155. 4 See Rchdantz, Vita? Iphicratis, Chabrise, et Timothei, p. 151, and the preceding page. M. Rehdantz has put together, with great care and sagacity, all the frag- ments of evidence respecting this obscure period ; and has elicited, as it seems to me, the most probable conclusions deducible from such scanty premises. 5 Xenoph. Ilcllen. vii, 5, 4. e We are fortunate enough to get this date exactly, the twenty third VOL. x. 16* 24oc
 * The affirmation of Cornelius Nepos (Timotheus, c. 1), that Timotheus