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Rh nually. Not until the misfortunes of Athens in the closing years of the Peloponnesian war, did Nymphaeum pass into the hands of the Bosporanic princes ; betrayed (according to Æs- chines) by the maternal grandfather of Demosthenes, the Athe- nian Gylon ; who however probably did nothing more than obey a necessity rendered unavoidable by the fallen condition of Ath- ens. We thus see that Nymphaeum, in the midst of the Bos- poranic dominion, was not only a member of the Athenian em- pire, but also contained influential Athenian citizens, engaged in the corn-trade. Gylon was rewarded by a large grant of land at Kepi — probably other Athenians of Nymphajum were rewarded also — by the Bosporanic prince; who did not grudge a good price for such an acquisition. We find also other instances, — both of Athenian citizens sent out to reside with the prince Satyrus, — and of Pontic Greeks who, already in correspondence and friendship with various individual Athenians, consign their sons to be initiated in the commerce, society, and refinements of Ath- ens. Such facts attest the correspondence and intercourse of that city, during her imperial greatness, with Bosporus. The Bosporanic prince Satyrus was in the best relations with Athens, and even seems to have had authorized representatives there to enforce his requests, which met with very great atten- tion. He treated the Athenian merchants at Bosporus with