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5.
While both parties were thus engaged, and
were as intent upon preparing for the war as they had been at the outset,
the Euboeans first of all sent envoys during this winter to Agis to treat of
their revolting from Athens.
Agis accepted their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas,
and Melanthus from Lacedaemon, to take the command in Euboea.
These accordingly arrived with some three hundred Neodamodes, and Agis
began to arrange for their crossing over.
[2]
But in the meanwhile arrived some Lesbians, who also wished to revolt; and these being supported by the Boeotians, Agis was persuaded to defer
acting in the matter of Euboea, and made arrangements for the revolt of the
Lesbians, giving them Alcamenes, who was to have sailed to Euboea, as
governor, and himself promising them ten ships, and the Boeotians the same
number.
[3]
All this was done without instructions from home, as Agis while at Decelea
with the army that he commanded had power to send troops to whatever quarter
he pleased, and to levy men and money.
During this period, one might say, the allies obeyed him much more than
they did the Lacedaemonians in the city, as the force he had with him made
him feared at once wherever he went.
[4]
While Agis was engaged with the Lesbians, the Chians and Erythraeans, who
were also ready to revolt, applied, not to him but at Lacedaemon; where they arrived accompanied by an ambassador from Tissaphernes, the
commander of King Darius, son of Artaxerxes,
[5]
in the maritime districts, who invited the Peloponnesians to come over, and
promised to maintain their army.
The king had lately called upon him for the tribute from his government,
for which he was in arrears, being unable to raise it from the Hellenic
towns by reason of the Athenians; and he therefore calculated that by weakening the Athenians he should get
the tribute better paid, and should also draw the Lacedaemonians into
alliance with the king; and by this means, as the king had commanded him, take alive or dead
Amorges, the bastard son of Pissuthnes, who was in rebellion on the coast of
Caria.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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