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45.
During this time, and even earlier, before they removed to Rhodes, the
following intrigues took place.
After the death of Chalcideus and the battle at Miletus, Alcibiades began
to be suspected by the Peloponnesians; and Astyochus received from Lacedaemon an order from them to put him to
death, he being the personal enemy of Agis, and in other respects thought
unworthy of confidence.
Alcibiades in his alarm first withdrew to Tissaphernes, and immediately
began to do all he could with him to injure the Peloponnesian cause.
[2]
Henceforth becoming his adviser in everything, he cut down the pay from an
Attic drachma to three obols a day, and even this not paid too regularly; and told Tissaphernes to say to the Peloponnesians that the Athenians,
whose maritime experience was of an older date than their own, only gave
their men three obols, not so much from poverty as to prevent their seamen
being corrupted by being too well off, and injuring their condition by
spending money upon enervating indulgences, and also paid their crews
irregularly in order to have a security against their deserting in the
arrears which they would leave behind them.
[3]
He also told Tissaphernes to bribe the captains and generals of the cities,
and so to obtain their connivance—an expedient which succeeded
with all except the Syracusans, Hermocrates alone opposing him on behalf of
the whole confederacy.
[4]
Meanwhile the cities asking for money Alcibiades sent off, by roundly
telling them in the name of Tissaphernes, that it was great impudence in the
Chians, the richest people in Hellas, not content with being defended by a
foreign force, to expect others to risk not only their lives but their money
as well in behalf of their freedom;
[5]
while the other cities, he said, had had to pay largely to Athens before
their rebellion, and could not justly refuse to contribute as much or even
more now for their own selves.
[6]
He also pointed out that Tissaphernes was at present carrying on the war at
his own charges, and had good cause for economy, but that as soon as he
received remittances from the king he would give them their pay in full, and
do what was reasonable for the cities.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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