put upon a peaceful footing, since all the
resources of the Empire were wanted for the repression of disturbances
which had some years previously broken out in Cyprus. The exact date
of the Cyprian revolt under Evagoras, the Greek tyrant of Salamis, is
uncertain; but there is evidence that, at least as early as B.C. 391, he
was at open war with the power of Persia, and had made an alliance
with the Athenians, who both in that year and in B.C. 388 sent him aid.
Assisted also by Achoris, independent monarch of Egypt, and Hecatomnus,
vassal king of Caria, he was able to take the offensive, to conquer
Tyre, and extend his revolt into Cilicia and Idumaea. An expedition
undertaken against him by Autophradates, satrap of Lydia, seems to have
failed. It was the first object of the Persians, after concluding the
"Peace of Antalcidas," to crush Evagoras. They collected 300 vessels,
partly from the Greeks of Asia, and brought together an army of 300,000
men. The fleet of Evagoras numbered 200 triremes, and with these he
ventured on an attack, but was completely defeated by Tiribazus, who
shut him up in Salamis, and, after a struggle which continued for at
least six years, compelled him to submit to terms (B.C. 380 or 379).
More fortunate than former rebels, he obtained not merely a promise of
pardon, which would probably have been violated, but a recognition of
his title, and permission to remain in his government, with the single
obligation of furnishing to the Great King a certain annual tribute.

During the continuance of this war, Artaxerxes was personally engaged in
military operations in another part of his dominions. The Cadusians,
who inhabited the low and fertile tract between the Elburz range and the
Caspian, having revolted against his authority, Artaxerxes invaded their
territory at the head of an army which is estimated at 300,000 foot and
10,000 horse. The land was little cultivated, rugged, and covered with
constant fogs; the men were brave and warlike, and having admitted him
into their country, seem to have waylaid and intercepted his convoys.
His army was soon reduced to great straits, and forced to subsist on the
cavalry horses and the baggage-animals. A most disastrous result must
have followed, had not Tiribazus, who had been recalled from Cyprus
on charges preferred against him by the commander of the land force,
Orontes, contrived very artfully to induce the rebels to make their
submission. Artaxerxes was thu