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 376 THE ATHENIANS A.'D .TISSAPHERNES [vill of sending help. Meanwhile Pedaritus in person with his mercenaries'* and the whole Chian army attacked the lines which protected the Athenian fleet ; he took a part of the wall and obtained possession of certain ships which were drawn up on shore. But the Athenians rushed out upon them, and first putting to flight the Chians, soon defeated the rest of his forces. Pedaritus himself was slain, together with many of the Chians, and a great quantity of arms was taken. 56 The Chians were now blockaded more closely than ever Peisaiidcr goes io t>oth by sca and land, and there was Tissaphenies, ivho docs a great famine in the place. Mean- andtoAlciLdcs,r.ho ^^^'^^ Peisandcr and his colleagues docs not ivmit io be Came to Tissaphernes and proposed an ihotigi't incapable of agreement. But Alcibiades was not as pcrsitttdinn him. So ,,^^ v r -r- 1 1 //.„ 7 f ^ I yet quite sure of Tissaphernes, who they demand too ntnch, -' ^ _ f > and the Athenian en- was more afraid of the Peloponnesians voys leave in a rage at than of the Athenians, and was still the tricks of Alcibiades. a ^ • ] •..!- i.i 1 -^ desirous, in accordance with the lesson which he had been taught by Alcibiades himself, to wear them both out. So he had recourse to the device of making Tissaphernes ask too much, that the negotiations might be broken off And I imagine that Tissaphernes himself equally wanted them to fail ; he was moved by his fears, while Alcibiades, seeing that his reluctance was insuper- able, did not wish the Athenians to think that he was unable to persuade him -he wanted them to believe that Tissaphernes was already persuaded and anxious to make terms but could not, because they themselves would not grant enough. And so, speaking on behalf of Tissaphernes who was himself present, he made such exorbitant de- mands that, although for a time the Athenians were willing to grant anything which he asked, at length the responsi- bility of breaking off the conference was thrown upon them. He and Tissaphernes demanded, first the cession of all
 * Cp. viii. 28 fin., 38 mcd.