wares after it had entered the
river, and lost more than half its number. Inarus was betrayed by some
of his own men, and, being carried prisoner to Persia, suffered death by
crucifixion. Amyrtseus fled to the fens, where for a while he maintained
his independence. Egypt, however, was with this exception recovered to
the Empire (B.C. 455); and Athens was taught that she could not always
invade the dominions of the Great King with impunity.

Six years after this, the Athenians resolved on another effort. A fleet
of 200 ships was equipped and placed under the command of the victor
of the Eurymedon, Cimon, with orders to proceed into the Eastern
Mediterranean, and seek to recover the laurels lost in Egypt. Cimon
sailed to Cyprus, where he received a communication from Amyrtseus,
which induced him to dispatch sixty ships to Egypt, while with the
remaining one hundred and forty he commenced the siege of Citium. Here
he died, either of disease or from the effects of a wound; and his
armament, pressed for provisions, was forced soon afterwards to raise
the siege, and address itself to some other enterprise. Sailing past
Salamis, it found there a Cilician and Phoenician fleet, consisting of
300 vessels, which it immediately attacked and defeated, notwithstanding
the disparity of number. Besides the ships which were sunk, a hundred
triremes were taken; and the sailors then landed and gained a victory
over a Persian army upon the shore. Artaxerxes, upon this, fearing lest
he should lose Cyprus altogether, and thinking that, if Athens became
mistress of this important island, she would always be fomenting
insurrection in Egypt, made overtures for peace to the generals who were
now in command. His propositions were favorably received. Peace was made
on the following terms:--Athens agreed to relinquish Cyprus, and recall
her squadron from Egypt; while the king consented to grant freedom to
all the Greek cities on the Asiatic continent, and not to menace them
either by land or water. The sea was divided between the two powers,
Persian ships of war were not to sail to the west of Phaselis in the
Levant, or of the Cyanean islands in the Euxine; and Greek war-ships, we
may assume, were not to show themselves east of those limits. On these
conditions there was to be peace and amity between the Greeks and the
Persians, and neither nation was to undertake any expeditions against
the territories of the other. Thus terminated the first period