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 42-^4] LICIIAS DENOUNCES THE TREATIES 365 with the twenty-seven ships from Caunus, they all sailed to Syme and raised a trophy ; they then returned and put into port again at Cnidus. As soon as the Athenians heard the result of the sea- 43 fight they sailed from Samos to Syme t, n,. ■^ -^ 1 he yiiopoiiiicsuins, with their whole fleet. They did not ivho a,e now at Cmdus, attack the Peloponnesians at Cnidus, <^o"M "■''^/' Tissa- nor the Peloponnesians them; but they ^T'li ^'"'""f"'" ^ ' -^ OKI the consequences carried away the heavy tackle of their involved in the two own ships which had been left at Syme, treaties. Tissaphemcs and touching at Loryma, a place on soes aivay in a rage. the mainland, returned to Samos. The Peloponnesians were now all together at Cnidus, and were making the repairs necessary after the battle, while the Lacedaemonian commissioners conferred with Tissaphernes (who was him- self on the spot) as to any matters in his past dealings with them at which they were displeased, and as to the best manner of securing their common interests in the future conduct of the war. Lichas entered into the enquiry with great energy ; he took exception to both the treaties ; that of Chalcideus and that of Theramenes were equally objectionable. For the King at that time of day to claim power over all the countries which his ancestors had formerly held was monstrous. If either treaty were carried out, the inhabitants of all the islands, ol" Thcs- saly, of Locris, and of all Hellas, as far as Bocotia, would again be reduced to slavery ; instead of giving the Hellenes freedom, the Lacedaemonians would be imposing upon them the yoke of Persia. So he desired them to conclude some more satisfactory treaty, for he would have nothing to say to these ; he did not want to have the fleet maintained upon any such terms. Tissaphernes was indignant, and without settling anything went awa}- in a rage. Meanwhile the Peloponnesians had been receiving 44 communications from the chief men of Rhodes, and re- solved to sail thither. They hoped to gain over an island