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Pharnabazus, after the truce had been made with the Lacedaemonians, went back to the King and won him over to the plan of preparing a fleet and appointing Conon the Athenian as its admiral; for Conon was experienced in the encounters of war and especially in combat with the present enemy,1 and although he excelled in warfare, he was at the time in Cyprus at the court of Evagoras the king.2 After the King had been persuaded, Pharnabazus took five hundred talents of silver and prepared to fit out a naval force.

1 i.e. the Lacedaemonians. But the text may have mentioned instead his special experience in fighting at sea.

2 Conon had taken refuge with him after the battle of Aegospotami, fearing to return to Athens (Book 13.106).

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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