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 30 HISTORY OF GREECE. payment (,f the full fine ; so that his son Konon appeal's after him as one of the richest citizens in Athens. 1 The loss of such a citizen as Timotheus was a fresh misfortune to her. He had conducted her armies with signal success, main- tained the honor of her name throughout the eastern and western seas, and greatly extended the list of her foreign allies. She had recently lost Chabrias in battle ; a second general, Timotheus, was now taken from her ; and the third, Iphikrates, though acquitted at the last trial, seems, as far as we can make out, never to have been subsequently employed on military command. These three were the last eminent military citizens at Athens ; for Phokion, though brave and deserving, was not to be compared with either of them. On the other hand, Chares, a man of great personal courage, but of no other merit, was now in the full swing of repu- tation. The recent judicial feud between the three Athenian admirals had been doubly injurious to Athens, first as discrediting Iphikrates and Timotheus, next as exalting Chares, to whom the sole command was now confided. In the succeeding year, 356 u. c., Chares conducted another powerful fleet to attack the revolted allies. Being however not furnished with adequate funds from home to pay his troops, chiefly foreign mercenaries, he thought it expedient, on his own responsi- bility, to accept an oifer from Artabazus (satrap of Daskylium and the region south of the Propontis), then in revolt against the Persian king. 2 Chares joined Artabazus with his own army, 1 Cornelius Nepos, Timoth. c. 4 ; Rehdantz, Vit. Iph. Ch. ct. Timoth. p V.35; Isokrates, Or. xv. (Permutat.) s. 108, 110, 137. 2 Diodor. xvi. 22. Demosthenes (Philippic, i. p. 46. s. 28) has an em- phatic passage, alluding to this proceeding on the part of Chares; which he represents as a necessary result of the rcmissncss of the Athenians, who would neither serve personally themselves, nor supply their general with money to pay his foreign troops and as a measure which the general could not avoid. K.a.1 rovf avpftu%ove, ol 6' %$pol fj.ei&i' TOV deovrof ytydvaoiv, KOL ^3i>ra km rbv TTJS irofauf iroZefiov, irpbf 'ApTu[3aov Kal a u X A o v olxETdi 7r/leovra 6 6e arparrj-ybf uKoXov&el elKoruf ov yuf. toriv upxeiv, fir; didovra yua-Qov. Compare the Scholia on the same ora- tion, a passage which occurs somewhat earlier, p. 44. s. 22. It soems evident, font this passage, that the Athenians were at first di