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 5, 6] TISSAPHEKNES AND PHARNABAZUS 339 governor of the provinces on the coast of Asia. Tissa- phernes too was inviting the assistance of the Lacedaemon- ians, and promised to maintain their troops ; for the King had quite lately been demanding of him the revenues due from the Hellenic cities in his province, which he had been prevented by the Athenians from collecting, and therefore still owed. He thought that if he could weaken the Athenians he would be more likely to get his tribute ; he hoped also to make the Lacedaemonians allies of the King, and by their help either to slay or take alive, in accordance with the King's orders, Amorges the natural son of Pissuthnes, who had revolted in Caria. While the Chians and Tissaphernes were pursuing their 6 common object, Calligitus the son of ^^^ Phanmbazus, Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras through hvoGreekcxiUs, the son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, '"'"' " ^''«'/«f- ., - 7 • tnojimn fed to the both exiles from then- own country, Helkspout. ThcChiaus who were residing at the court of having the support of Pharnabazus the son of Pharnaces, ^icibiades arc frst re- -, T-1 1 1 1 caved into alliance; came to Lacedaemon. They had been u^^^ „,.^ promised the commissioned by Pharnabazus to bring assistance of a rehpon- up a fleet to the Hellespont; like Tis- "(sianfcct. saphernes he was anxious, if possible, to induce the cities in his province to revolt from the Athenians, that he might obtain the tribute from them ; and he wanted the alliance between the Lacedaemonians and the King to come from himself. The two parties— that is to say, the envoys of Pharnabazus and those of Tissaphernes — were acting inde- pendently ; and a vehement contest arose at Lacedaemon, the one party urging the Lacedaemonians to send a fleet and army to Ionia and Chios, the other to begin with the Hellespont. They were themselves far more favourable to the proposals of the Chians and Tissaphernes ; for Alci- biades was in their interest, and he was a great hereditary friend of Endius, one of the Ephors of that year. — Through this friendship the Lacedaemonian name of Alcibiades had come into his family ; for Alcibiades was the name of