us was sacked by the
army, who found a very great booty there, the place being wealthy from
ancient date. The mercenaries serving with Amorges the Peloponnesians
received and enrolled in their army without doing them any harm,
since most of them came from Peloponnese, and handed over the town to
Tissaphernes with all the captives, bond or free, at the stipulated
price of one Doric stater a head; after which they returned to Miletus.
Pedaritus, son of Leon, who had been sent by the Lacedaemonians to take
the command at Chios, they dispatched by land as far as Erythrae with
the mercenaries taken from Amorges; appointing Philip to remain as
governor of Miletus.

Summer was now over. The winter following, Tissaphernes put Iasus in a
state of defence, and passing on to Miletus distributed a month's pay to
all the ships as he had promised at Lacedaemon, at the rate of an Attic
drachma a day for each man. In future, however, he was resolved not to
give more than three obols, until he had consulted the King; when if the
King should so order he would give, he said, the full drachma. However,
upon the protest of the Syracusan general Hermocrates (for as Therimenes
was not admiral, but only accompanied them in order to hand over the
ships to Astyochus, he made little difficulty about the pay), it was
agreed that the amount of five ships' pay should be given over and above
the three obols a day for each man; Tissaphernes paying thirty talents
a month for fifty-five ships, and to the rest, for as many ships as they
had beyond that number, at the same rate.

The same winter the Athenians in Samos, having been joined by
thirty-five more vessels from home under Charminus, Strombichides, and
Euctemon, called in their squadron at Chios and all the rest, intending
to blockade Miletus with their navy, and to send a fleet and an army
against Chios; drawing lots for the respective services. This intention
they carried into effect; Strombichides, Onamacles, and Euctemon sailing
against Chios, which fell to their lot, with thirty ships and a part
of the thousand heavy infantry, who had been to Miletus, in transports;
while the rest remained masters of the sea with seventy-four ships at
Samos, and advanced upon Miletus.

Meanwhile Astyochus, whom we left at Chios collecting the hostages
required in consequence of the conspiracy, stopped upon learning that
the fleet with Therimenes had arrived, and that the affairs of the
league were in a mor