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Memnon of
Rhodes, on making himself master of
Lampsacus, found he was in need of
funds. He therefore assessed upon the wealthiest inhabitants a quantity of
silver, telling them that they should recover it from the other citizens. But
when the other citizens made their contributions, Memnon said they must lend him
this money also, fixing a certain date for its repayment.Again being in need of funds, he asked for a contribution, to
be recovered, as he said, from the city revenues. The citizens complied,
thinking that they would speedily reimburse themselves. But when the revenue
payments came in, he declared that he must have these also, and would repay the
lenders subsequently with interest.His mercenary
troops he requested to forgo six days' pay and rations each year,
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 178 (search)
Amasis became a philhellene, and besides other services which he did for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis to live in; and to those who travelled to the country without wanting to settle there, he gave lands where they might set up altars and make holy places for their gods.
Of these the greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.
It is to these that the precinct belongs, and these are the cities that furnish overseers of the trading port; if any other cities advance claims, they claim what does not belong to them. The Aeginetans made a precinct of their own, sacred to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera and the Milesians for Apollo.