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 412 DISHONESTY OF TISSAPHERNES [vill 99 During this summer and about the same time Mindarus „ ., , „, transferred the fleet of the Pelopon- Jo sign of the Phoe ■. i tt n -r-i i uician ships. The Pdo- "esians to the Hellespont. They had ponnesiatis tiozv become been Waiting at Miletus. But none of aware that Tissaphentes f^e commissioners whom Tissaphernes ts thoroughly dishoiiesf, and transfer their fleet ©n going tO AspcnduS appointed tO to Pharnabaziis at the supply the fleet gave them anything ; Hellespont. They are ^^^ neither the Phoenician ships nor detained at Chios. _., , . ,r i , 1 issaphernes himself had as yet made their appearance ; Philip, who had been sent with Tissa- phernes, and Hippocrates, a Spartan then in Phaselis, had informed the admiral Mindarus that the ships would never come, and that Tissaphernes was thoroughly dishonest in his dealings with them. All this time Pharnabazus was inviting them and was eager to secure the assistance of the fleet ; he wanted, like Tissaphernes, to raise a revolt, whereby he hoped to profit, among the cities in his own dominion which still lemained faithful to Athens, So at length Mindarus, in good order and giving the signal sud- denly, lest he should be discovered by the Athenians at Samos, put to sea from Miletus with seventy-three ships, and set sail for the Hellespont, whither in this same summer a Peloponnesian force had already gone in sixteen ships, and had overrun a portion of the Chersonese. But meeting with a storm Mindarus was driven into Icarus, and being detained there five or six days by stress of weather, he put in at Chios, loo When Thrasyllus at Samos heard that he had started The Athenians pin- ^^ovn Miletus he sailed away in all haste sue them. Observing with fifty-five ships, fearing that the that they are at Chios, ^^ ^-^^ ^ jj^j^ ^^ Hellespont they stop at Lesbos to -^. ° ^ ^ ■watch them, and dm-ing before him. Observing that Mindarus their stay besiege Eresus was at Chios, and thinking that he {i6), which has rez'0/tcd. ^ould keep him there, he placed scouts at Lesbos and on the mainland opposite, that he might be informed if the ships made any attempt to sail away. He himself coasted along the island to Methymna and