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 CONDUCT OF HARP ALUS IN ASIA. 295 ble treasure and a body of 5000 soldiers.^ While satrap, lie liatl invited into Asia, in succession, two Athenian women as mis tresses, Pythionikg and Glykera, to each of whom he was much attached, and whom he entertained with lavish expense and pomp. On the death of the first, he testified his soitow by two costly funereal monuments to her memory; one at Babylon, the other in Attica, between Athens and Eleusis. With Glykera he is said to have resided at Tarsus in Kilikia, — to have ordered that men should prostrate themselves before her, and address her as queen — and to have erected her statue along with his own at Rhossus, a seaport on the confines of Kilikia and Syria.=i To please these mistresses, or perhaps to ensure a retreat for himself in case of need, he had sent to Athens profuse gifts of wheat for distribution among the people, for which he had re- ceived votes of thanks with the grant of Athenian citizenship.^ Moreover he had consigned to Charikles, son-in-law of Phokion, the task of erecting the monument in Attica to the honor of Pythionike ; with a large remittance of money for the purpose.* Tiie profit or embezzlement arising out of this expenditure se- cured to him the good will of Charikles — a man very different from his father-in-law, the honest and austere Phokion, Other Athenians were probably conciliated by various presents, so that ' Diodor. xvii. 108. He states the treasure brought out of Asia by llar- palus as 5000 talents. " See the fragments of the letter or pamphlet of Theopompus aflJresscd to Alexander, wlille Harpalus was still at Tarsus, and before his flight to Athens — Theopomp. Fragm. 277, 278, ed. Didot, ap. Athenasum, xiii. p. 586-595. Theopompus speaks in the present tense — Kal opa (Harpalus) tiro Tov ktiov TcpoaKvvoviiii'Tiv (Glykera), etc. Kleitarchus stated these facts, as well as Theopompus (Athenae. ibid.). ' Athenffius, xiii. p. 596 — the extract from the satirical drama called Ag6n, represented before Alexander at Susa, in the Dionysiac festival or early months of 324 b. C. ^ Pkitarch, Phokion, 22; Pausanias, i. 37, 4; Dikaearchi Fragment. 72. ed. Didot. Plutarch's narrative is misleading, inasmuch as it seems to imply tiiat Harpalus gave this money to Charikles after his arrival at Athens. We know from Theopompus (Fr. 277) that the monument had been finished some time before Harpalus quitted Asia. Plutarch treats it as a mean struc ture, unworthy of the sum expended on it ; but both Diksearclius and Pat sanias describe il as stately and magnificent.