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 53-55] THE SUCCESS OF PEISANDER 375 that it might be hereafter changed, they gave way. So a decree was passed that Peisander himself and ten others should go „,l^!!iZ?""u isZ out and negotiate to the best of their hst agreed that Peis- judgment with Tissaphernes and Al- "^'• ^''"^^ so «'«' .... T-. • J 1 1 I necoliate ivitlt ALib- cihiades. Peisander also denounced. ^ taeics. Phr^'nichus, and therefore the people dismissed him and his colleague Scironidcs from their commands, and appointed Diomedon and Leon to be admirals in their room. Peisander thought that Phryni- chus would stand in the way of the negotiations with Alcibiades, and for this reason he calumniated him, alleging that he had betrayed lasus and Amorges. Then he went, one after another, to all the clubs which already existed in Athens for the management of trials and elec- tions, and exhorted them to unite, and by concerted action put down the democrac3^ When he had completed all the necessary preparations and the plot was ripe, he and his colleagues proceeded on their voyage to Tissaphernes. During the same winter Leon and Diomedon, who had 55 now entered upon their command, 7-/,^ Aiheiuans eam- made a descent upon Rhodes. They inaud Rhodes from found the Peloponnesian fleet drawn Chak^. The blockade ' 1 1 J 'y Linos, lite Lilians up out of their reach, but they landed, ,„„^^ „ 5,,//,,^ ,„ „,/„^/, and defeated the Rhodians who came after a partial success out to meet them. From Rhodes they ^^'^;>; ^.^ '{'^'f'^ "'"^ Pedanlus is slant. retired to Chalce^ which henceforth they made their base of operations rather than Cos, because they could there better command any movement which might be made by the Peloponnesian fleet. About this time Xenophantidas, a Lacedaemonian, brought word to Rhodes from Pedaritus, the governor of Chios, that the Athenian fortification was now completed '», and that if the Peloponnesians with their whole fleet did not at once come to the rescue Chios would be lost. So they began to think » Cp. viii. 44 fin., 60 fin. •• Cp. viii. 40 fin. VOL. II. C C