Xenophon, Hellenica, Book 1, chapter 5, section 4

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[4] The ambassadors thanked him, and urged him to make the wage of each sailor an Attic drachma¹ a day, explaining that if this were made the rate, the sailors of the Athenian fleet would desert their ships, and hence he would spend less money.²

1 The Attic drachma = about 9 d. or 18 cents; it was the average wage of an ordinary day-labourer.

2 Since the war would be brought to a speedy conclusion, the Athenian sailors going over to the Lacedaemonian fleet for the sake of the higher wage.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 1 and 2. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. vol. 1:1918; vol. 2: 1921.

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