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 56-58] TISSAPIJERNES AND THE ALLIES 377 Ionia to the King, then that of the neighbouring islands; and there were some other conditions. Thus far the Athenians offered no opposition. But at last, fearing that his utter inability to fulfil his promise would be exposed, at the third interview he demanded permission for the King to build ships, and sail along his own coast wherever and with as many vessels as he pleased. This was too much ; the Athenians now perceived that matters were hopeless, and that they had been duped by Alcibiades. So they departed in anger to Samos. Immediately afterwards, and during the same winter, 57 Tissaphernes came down to Caunus ... ^ ,., ,., rii Tissaphernes, hold- wishmg to brmg back the Peloponnes- .^^„ ^,J ^^^^,,;^^ „^^^ ians to Miletus, and once more to thinks that the time has make a treaty with them on such terms f"""' *' '""'^'^ another, 11 .1 .,,• . trcatvv.'ilii the Laccdae- as he could get ; he was willmg to . niontans. maintain them, for he did not want to become wholly their enemy, and was afraid that if their large fleet were at a loss for supplies they might be compelled to fight and be defeated, or their crews might desert ; in either case the Athenians would gain their ends without his assistance. Above all he feared lest they should ravage the adjoining mainland in search of food. Taking into account all these possibilities, and true to his policy, which was to hold the balance evenly between the two contending powers, he sent for the Lacedaemonians, furnished them with supplies, and made a third treaty with them, which ran as follows : — 'In the thirteenth year of the reign of Darius the King, 58 when Alexippidas was Ephor at Lace- ti ■ , , j ■ r r V This treaty, made in daemon, a treaty was made in the plain the natne of Tissapher- of the Maeander between the Lacedae- "« »" the. King's be- , ,, . ,,. .. haJf, does not extend monians and their allies on the one ,, ■' v, /■ // the recognition oj the hand, and Tissaphernes, Hieramenes, King's rights beyond and the sons of Pharnaces on the ^sia. The obnoxious ., ., • ,, • . , c ,.1, clause is omitted. Other touchinsr the interests of the King, and of the Lacedaemonians and their allies. c c 2