g their territories; and lastly,
manning three vessels besides those which he already held in the harbour
of Abydos, he intercepted and brought into port all the merchant ships
of Athens or of her allies which he could lay hands on.

(31) "Thus perished the citizen to whom, more than any one else,
Athens owed not only her renovated democracy, but its wise,
generous, and harmonious working, after renovation."--Grote, "H.
G." ix. 509.

(32) For this statesman, see Demosth. "c. Timocr." 742; Andoc. "de
Myst." 133; Aristot. "Ath. Pol." 41, and Mr. Kenyon's notes ad
loc.; Aristoph. "Eccles." 102, and the Schol. ad loc.; Diod. xiv.
99; Curtius, "H. G." Eng tr. iv. 280.

Getting wind of these proceedings, the Athenians, fearing lest the fair
foundation laid for them by Thrasybulus in the Hellespont should be
ruined, sent out Iphicrates with eight vessels and twelve hundred
peltasts. The majority of them (33) consisted of troops which he had
commanded at Corinth. In explanation it may be stated that the Argives,
when once they had appropriated Corinth and incorporated it with Argos,
gave out they had no further need of Iphicrates and his troops; the real
fact being that he had put to death some of the partisans of Argos. (34)
And so it was he turned his back on Corinth and found himself at home in
Athens at the present crisis.

(33) Or, "The mass of them."

(34) See Grote, "H. G." ix. p. 491 note. The "Argolising" or philo-
Argeian party, as opposed to the philo-Laconian party. See above,
"Hell." IV. iv. 6.

B.C. 389-388. When Iphicrates first reached the Chersonese he and
Anaxibius carried on war against each other by the despatch of guerilla
or piratic bands across the straits. But as time wore on, information
reached him of the departure of Anaxibius to Antandrus, accompanied
by his mercenaries and his own bodyguard of Laconians and two hundred
Abydenian hoplites. Hearing further that Anaxibius had won the friendly
adhesion of Antandrus, Iphicrates conjectured that after establishing a
garrison in that place he would make the best of his way back, if only
to bring the Abydenians home again. He therefore crossed in the night,
selecting a desert point on the Abydene coast, from which he scaled
the hills above the town and planted himself in ambuscade within their
folds. The triremes which brought him across had orders at break of day
to coast up northwards along the Chersonese, which