tileneian exiles to be found in that
place, advanced to meet the enemy on their borders. A battle was fought
and Therimachus was slain, a fate shared by several of the exiles of his
party.

As a result (29) of his victory the Athenian general succeeded in
winning the adhesion of some of the states; or, where adhesion
was refused, he could at least raise supplies for his soldiers by
freebooting expeditions, and so hastened to reach his goal, which was
the island of Rhodes. His chief concern was to support as powerful an
army as possible in those parts, and with this object he proceeded
to levy money aids, visiting various cities, until he finally reached
Aspendus, and came to moorings in the river Eurymedon. The money was
safely collected from the Aspendians, and the work completed, when,
taking occasion of some depredations (30) of the soldiers on the
farmsteads, the people of the place in a fit of irritation burst into
the general's quarters at night and butchered him in his tent.

(29) According to some critics, B.C. 389 is only now reached.

(30) See Diod. xiv. 94.

So perished Thrasybulus, (31) a good and great man by all admission. In
room of him the Athenians chose Agyrrhius, (32) who was despatched to
take command of the fleet. And now the Lacedaemonians--alive to the fact
that the sale of the Euxine tithe-dues had been negotiated in Byzantium
by Athens; aware also that as long as the Athenians kept hold on
Calchedon the loyalty of the other Hellespontine cities was secured to
them (at any rate while Pharnabazus remained their friend)--felt that
the state of affairs demanded their serious attention. They attached no
blame indeed to Dercylidas. Anaxibius, however, through the friendship
of the ephors, contrived to get himself appointed as governor, on a
mission to Abydos. With the requisite funds and ships, he promised to
exert such hostile pressure upon Athens that at least her prospects
in the Hellespont would cease to be so sunny. His friends the ephors
granted him in return for these promises three ships of war and funds
to support a thousand mercenaries, and so they despatched him on his
mission. Reaching Abydos, he set about improving his naval and military
position. First he collected a foreign brigade, by help of which he drew
off some of the Aeolid cities from Pharnabazus. Next he set on foot
a series of retaliatory expeditions against the states which attacked
Abydos, marching upon them and ravagin