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[4] When Chares, however, though the elements were against him, wished to fight, but Iphicrates and Timotheus opposed on account of the heavy sea, Chares, calling upon his soldiers to bear him witness, accused his colleagues of treason and wrote to the assembly about them, charging that they had purposely shirked the sea-fight.1 And the Athenians were so incensed that they indicted Iphicrates and Timotheus, fined them many talents, and removed them from the generalship.2

1 See Nepos Timotheus 3. Menestheus, son of Iphicrates and son-in-law of Timotheus, was also associated with the command and later brought to trial. A battle was actually begun, the battle of Embata, not in the Hellespont, but near Erythrae. See Nepos, l.c.: "hinc male re gesta, compluribus amissis navibus"; Polyaenus 3.9.29; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἔμβατον.

2 See Nepos Timotheus 3.5; Nepos Iphicrates 3.3; Isoc. 15.129; Polyaenus 3.9.29; Din. Dem. 14 and Schaefer, Demosthenes, 1(2). 175 ff. For an interesting appraisal of these generals see chap. 85.7.

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