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 EVAGORAS AND PERSIA. 21 act against the Lacedaemonians, himself serving aboard. 1 It was in fact (if we may believe Isokrates) to the extraordinary energy, ability, and power, displayed by him on that occasion in the ser- vice of Artaxerxes himself, that the jealousy and alarm of the latter against him are to be ascribed. Without any provocation, and at the very moment when he was profiting by the zealous ser- vices of Evagoras, the Great King treacherously began to manoeu- vre against him, and forced him into the war in self-defence. 2 Evagoras accepted the challenge, in spite of the disparity of strength, with such courage and efficiency, that he at first gained marked successes. Seconded by his son Pnytagoras, he not only worsted and humbled Amathus, Kitium, and Soli, which cities, under the prince Agyris, adhered to Artaxerxes, but also equipped a large fleet, attacked the Phoenicians on the mainland with so much vigor as even to take the great city of Tyre ; pre- vailing, moreover, upon some of the Kilikian towns to declare against the Persians. 3 He received powerful aid from Akoris, the native and independent king in Egypt, as well as from Cha- brias and the force sent out by the Athenians. 4 Beginning appa- rently about 390 B. c., the war against Evagoras lasted something more than ten years, costing the Persians great efforts and an im- mense expenditure of money. Twice did Athens send a squadron to his assistance, from gratitude for his long protection to Konon and his energetic efforts before and in the battle of Knidus, though she thereby ran every risk of making the Persians her enemies. The satrap Tiribazus saw that so long as he had on his hands 1 This much appears even from the meagre abstract of KtCsias, given by Photius (Ktesise Persica, c. 63, p. 80, ed. Bahr). Both Ktcsias and Theopompus (Fr. iii, ed. Wichers, and ed. Didot) re- counted the causes which brought about the war between the Persian king and Evagoras. 2 Isokrates, Or. ix, (Evag.) s. 71, 73, 74. irpbf <Je TOVTOV (Evagoras) OVTUC in 7ro/U,oi5 TrepiJeoif a%e (Artaxerxes), wore /zera^i) vraa^uv etf, rco'keiiElv irpbf avrbv iTrexeipqas, tiinaia JJLEV ov TTOIUV, etc. insiSn yvay Kao-&7) TT o /I e [j. e I v (i. e. Evagoras). 3 Isokr. Or. ix, (Evag.) s. 75, 76; Diodor. xiv, 98 ; Ephorus, Frag. 134. ed. Didot. 4 Cornelius Nepos, Chai rias, c. 2 ; Demosthenes adv. Leptinem, p. 479 s. 84.