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You made no allowance for Timotheus,1 Athenians, although
he sailed round the Peloponnese and
defeated the Lacedaemonians in a naval battle at Corcyra, and was the son of Conon2 too who
liberated Greece. Though he captured
Samos, Methone, Pydna, Potidaea, and
twenty other cities besides, you did not permit such services to outweigh the
trial which you were then conducting or the oaths that governed your vote;
instead you fined him a hundred talents because Aristophon said that he had
accepted money from the Chians and Rhodians.
1 The following passage is repeated almost word for word in the speech against Philocles （Din. 3.17）. Timotheus, an Athenian general and a friend of Isocrates, who recounts his exploits （Isoc. 15.107-113）, sailed round the Peloponnese and gained a victory at Corcyra in 375 B.C. In 365 he took Samos, which was occupied by a Persian garrison, after a ten months' siege （Dem. 15.9）. Thence he moved to Thrace and mastered several Chalcidian cities, of which Dinarchus here mentions three. In 356 he was sent out with two others to reinforce the fleet of Chares who was trying to crush an allied revolt; but in a sea battle near Chios he failed to help Chares, owing to stormy weather, and was therefore prosecuted by him for bribery. Timotheus was not popular owing to his haughty behavior; and being fined the unprecedented amount of a hundred talents, which he could not pay, he went into exile in Chalcis. Cf. Isoc. 15.131.
2 Conon, a general in the Peloponnesian war who fought at Aegospotami, was later joint commander of the Persian fleet. In this capacity he rendered a service to Athens by defeating the Spartan Pisander in a naval battle off Cnidus in 394 B.C.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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