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 878 HISTORY OF GREECE. the Greek city of Kardia should be specially reserved to C'harido mus himself. That city eminently convenient from its situation on the isthmus connecting the Chersonese with Thrace claimed by the Athenians as within the Chersonese, yet at the same time intensely hostile to Athens became his principal station. 1 He was fortunate enough to seize, through treachery, the person of the Thracian Miltokythes, who had been the pronounced enemy of Ko- tys, and had cooperated with Athens. But he did not choose to hand over this important prisoner to Kersobleptes, because the life of Miltokythes would thus have been saved : it not being the cus- tom of Thracians, in their intestine disputes, to put each other to death. 2 "We remark with surprise a practice milder than that of Greece, amidst a people decidedly more barbarous and bloodthirsty than the Greeks. Charidemus accordingly surrendered Miltoky- thes to the Kardians, who put the prisoner with his son into a boat, took them a little way out to sea, slew the son before the eyes of the father, and then drowned the father himself. 3 It is not improb- able that there may have been some special antecedent causes, occasioning intense antipathy on the part of the Kardians towards Miltokythes, and inducing Charidemus to hand him over to them as an acceptable subject for revenge. However this may be, their savage deed kindled violent indignation among all the Thracians, and did much injury to the cause of Kersobleptes and Charidemus. Though Kephisodotus had been recalled, and though a considerable interval elapsed before any successor came from Athens, yet Beri sades and Amadokus joined their forces in one common accord, and sent to the Athenians propositions of alliance, with request for pecuniary aid. Athenodorus, the general of Berisades, putting himself at the head of Thracians and Athenians together, found himself superior in the field to Kersobleptes and Charidemus ; whom he constrained to accept a fresh convention dictated by him- self. Herein it was provided, that the kingdom of Thrace should be divided hi equal portions between the three competitors ; that all three should concur in surrendering the Chersonese to Athens ; Demosthen, cont. Aristokrat. p. 679, s. 209 ; p. 681. s. 216. Demosthen de Halonneso. p. 87. s. 42. s Demosthen. cont. Aristokrat. p. 676, s. 201. OVK ovrc/f vopifiov role Gpo- 2v iTJJitovc uTTOKTivvvvai, etc. 1 Demosthenes, cont. Aristokrat. p. 677 s. 201.