inetans were numbered among the slain, while the
loss incurred by the foreigners, metics, and sailors who had joined the
relief party, reached a total of two hundred. After this the Athenians
sailed the sea as freely as in the times of actual peace. Nor would
anything induce the sailors to row a single stroke for Eteonicus--even
under pressure--since he had no pay to give.

(7) According to Diod. xiv. 92, Chabrias had been for some time in
Corinth. See also above, IV. viii. 24.

(8) Lit. "about sixteen stades."

(9) Or, reading {oi anabebekotes}, "who had scaled the height." See
Hartman, "Anal. Xen." p. 364.

Subsequently the Lacedaemonians despatched Teleutias once again to take
command of the squadron, and when the sailors saw it was he who had
come, they were overjoyed. He summoned a meeting and addressed them
thus: "Soldiers, I am back again, but I bring with me no money. Yet if
God be willing, and your zeal flag not, I will endeavour to supply
you with provisions without stint. Be well assured, as often as I find
myself in command of you, I have but one prayer--that your lives may
be spared no less than mine; and as for the necessaries of existence,
perhaps it would astonish you if I said I would rather you should
have them than I. Yet by the gods I swear I would welcome two days'
starvation in order to spare you one. Was not my door open in old days
to every comer? Open again it shall stand now; and so it shall be; where
your own board overflows, you shall look in and mark the luxury of your
general; but if at other times you see him bearing up against cold and
heat and sleepless nights, you must apply the lesson to yourselves
and study to endure those evils. I do not bid you do aught of this for
self-mortification's sake, but that you may derive some after-blessing
from it. Soldiers, let Lacedaemon, our own mother-city, be to you an
example. Her good fortune is reputed to stand high. That you know; and
you know too, that she purchased her glory and her greatness not by
faint-heartedness, but by choosing to suffer pain and incur dangers in
the day of need. 'Like city,' I say, 'like citizens.' You, too, as I
can bear you witness, have been in times past brave; but to-day must we
strive to be better than ourselves. So shall we share our pains without
repining, and when fortune smiles, mingle our joys; for indeed the
sweetest thing of all surely is to flatter no man, Hellene or Barbarian,
for the sake