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 438 HISTORY OF GREECE. to Cyprus a force of forty triremes and eight thousand mercen- ary troops., under the command of the Athenian Phokion and ot Evagoras, an exiled member of the dynasty reigning at Salamig in the island. After a long siege of Salamis itself, which was held against the Persian king by Protagoras, probably another member of the same dynasty and after extensive operations throughout the rest of this rich island, affording copious plunder to the soldiers, so as to attract numerous volunteers from the main- land all Cyprus was again brought under the Persian authority. 1 The Phenicians had revolted from Ochus at the same time as the Cypriots, and in concert with Nektanebus prince of Egypt, from whom they received a reinforcement of four thousand Greek mercenaries under Mentor the Rhodian. Of the three great Phenician cities, Sidon, Tyre, and Aradus each a separate po- litical community, but administering their common affairs at a joint town called Tripolis, composed of three separate walled cir- cuits, a furlong apart from each other Sidon was at once the oldest, the richest, and the greatest sufferer from Persian oppres- sion. Hence the Sidonian population, with their prince Tennes, stood foremost in the revolt against Ochus, employing their great wealth in hiring soldiers, preparing arms, and accumulating every means of defence. In the first outbreak they expelled the Per- sian garrison, seized and punished some of the principal officers, and destroyed the adjoining palace and park reserved for the sa- trap or king. Having farther defeated the neighboring satraps of Kilikia and Syria, they strengthened the defences of the city by triple ditches, heightened walls, and a -fleet of one hundred tri- remes and quinqueremes. Incensed at these proceedings, Ochus Demosth. De Pace, p. 63. fifttif <5e iupev nal rbv Kupa r&f vrjaov KaTaXanfidveiv, ~X.iov KOI Kuv KOI 'P66ov, etc. An oration delivered in the latter half of 346 B. c. after the peace. Compare Demosth. De Rhod. Libertat. p. 121, an oration four years earlier. 1 Diodor. xvi. 42-46. In the Inscription No. 87. of Boeckh's Corpus Inscriptt., we find a decree passed by the Athenians recognizing friendship and hospitality with the Sidonian prince Strato from whom they seem to have received a donation of ten talents. The note of date in this de- cree is not preserved; but M. Boeckh conceives it to date between Olympiad 101-104.