Persian answered that he wished him to be a friend, he
said, "Then take this money away; for if I am your friend I shall be
able to ask you for it when I want it."

XI. When the allies of Athens, though they continued to pay their
contribution towards the war against Persia, refused to furnish men
and ships for it, and would not go on military expeditions any longer,
because they were tired of war and wished to cultivate their fields
and live in peace, now that the Persians no longer threatened them,
the other Athenian generals endeavoured to force them into performing
their duties, and by taking legal proceedings against the defaulters
and imposing fines upon them, made the Athenian empire very much
disliked. Kimon, on the other hand, never forced any one to serve, but
took an equivalent in money from those who were unwilling to serve in
person, and took their ships without crews, permitting them to stay at
home and enjoy repose, and by their luxury and folly convert
themselves into farmers and merchants, losing all their ancient
warlike spirit and skill, while by exercising many of the Athenians in
turn in campaigns and military expeditions, he rendered them the
masters of the allies by means of the very money which they themselves
supplied. The allies very naturally began to fear and to look up to
men who were always at sea, and accustomed to the use of arms, living
as soldiers on the profits of their own unwarlike leisure, and thus by
degrees, instead of independent allies, they sank into the position of
tributaries and subjects.

XII. Moreover, no one contributed so powerfully as Kimon to the
humbling of the king of Persia; for Kimon would not relax his pursuit
of him when he retreated from Greece, but hung on the rear of the
barbarian army and would not allow them any breathing-time for
rallying their forces. He sacked several cities and laid waste their
territory, and induced many others to join the Greeks, so that he
drove the Persians entirely out of Asia Minor, from Ionia to
Pamphylia. Learning that the Persian leaders with a large army and
fleet were lying in wait for him in Pamphylia, and wishing to rid the
seas of them as far as the Chelidoniae, or Swallow Islands, he set sail
from Knidus and the Triopian Cape with a fleet of two hundred
triremes, whose crews had been excellently trained to speed and
swiftness of manoeuvring by Themistokles, while he had himself improved
their build by giving them a grea