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When the inhabitants of Mitylene offered to Pittacus the half of the land for which he
had fought in single combat,He slew Phrynon, the Athenian
general, when the Mitylenaeans and Athenians were fighting for possession of Sigeum on the
Hellespont. he would not accept it, but
arranged to assign to every man by lot an equal part, uttering the maxim, "The equal share is
more than the greater."Diogenes
Laertius 1.75 gives it, "The half is more than the whole" (to\
h(/misu tou= panto\s plei=on); cp. Hes. WD 1.40,
nh/pioi, ou)de\ i)/sasin o(/sw| ple/on h(/misu
panto/s.. For in measuring "the greater" in terms of fair dealing, not of
profit, he judged wisely; since he reasoned that equality would be followed by fame and
security, but greediness by opprobrium and fear, which would speedily have taken away from him
the people's gift. Pittacus
acted consistently with these principles toward Croesus also, when the latter of
The Lacedaemonians, having appointed Pausanias, who had held the command at Plataea, admiral of their fleet, instructed him to liberate
the Greek cities which were still held by barbarian garrisons. And taking fifty triremes from the Peloponnesus and
summoning from the Athenians thirty commanded by Aristeides, he first of all sailed to
Cyprus and liberated those cities which still had
Persian garrisons; and after this he sailed to the Hellespont and took Byzantium, which was held by the Persians, and of the other barbarians some he
slew and others he expelled, and thus liberated the city, but many important Persians whom he
captured in the city he turned over to Gongylus of Eretria to guard. Ostensibly Gongylus was to keep these men for punishment, but
actually he was to get them off safe to Xerxes; for Pausanias had secretly made a pact of
friendship with the king and was about to marry the daughter of Xerxes, his purpose being to
betray t
In Greece Dorieus the Rhodian, the admiral of the triremes
from Italy, after he had quelled the tumult in
Rhodes,Cp.
chap. 38.5; Thuc. 8.44. set sail for the Hellespont, being eager to join Mindarus; for the latter was
lying at Abydus and collecting from every quarter the
ships of the Peloponnesian alliance. And when Dorieus was
already in the neighbourhood of Sigeium in the Troad,
the Athenians who were at Sestus, learning that he was sailing along the coast m on
every side by their superior numbers. When Mindarus, the
Peloponnesian admiral, learned of the situation, he speedily put out from Abydus with his entire fleet and sailed to the Dardanian
PromontorySome ten miles inside the Hellespont on the Asian side. with eighty-four ships to
the aid of the fleet of Dorieus; and the land army of Pharnabazus was also there, supporting
the Lacedaemonians. When the
fleets came near one another, both sides drew up the triremes