force, to expect others to risk not only their
lives but their money as well in behalf of their freedom; while the
other cities, he said, had had to pay largely to Athens before their
rebellion, and could not justly refuse to contribute as much or even
more now for their own selves. He also pointed out that Tissaphernes was
at present carrying on the war at his own charges, and had good cause
for economy, but that as soon as he received remittances from the king
he would give them their pay in full and do what was reasonable for the
cities.

Alcibiades further advised Tissaphernes not to be in too great a
hurry to end the war, or to let himself be persuaded to bring up the
Phoenician fleet which he was equipping, or to provide pay for more
Hellenes, and thus put the power by land and sea into the same hands;
but to leave each of the contending parties in possession of one
element, thus enabling the king when he found one troublesome to call
in the other. For if the command of the sea and land were united in one
hand, he would not know where to turn for help to overthrow the dominant
power; unless he at last chose to stand up himself, and go through with
the struggle at great expense and hazard. The cheapest plan was to let
the Hellenes wear each other out, at a small share of the expense and
without risk to himself. Besides, he would find the Athenians the most
convenient partners in empire as they did not aim at conquests on
shore, and carried on the war upon principles and with a practice most
advantageous to the King; being prepared to combine to conquer the sea
for Athens, and for the King all the Hellenes inhabiting his country,
whom the Peloponnesians, on the contrary, had come to liberate. Now it
was not likely that the Lacedaemonians would free the Hellenes from the
Hellenic Athenians, without freeing them also from the barbarian Mede,
unless overthrown by him in the meanwhile. Alcibiades therefore urged
him to wear them both out at first, and, after docking the Athenian
power as much as he could, forthwith to rid the country of the
Peloponnesians. In the main Tissaphernes approved of this policy, so far
at least as could be conjectured from his behaviour; since he now gave
his confidence to Alcibiades in recognition of his good advice, and kept
the Peloponnesians short of money, and would not let them fight at sea,
but ruined their cause by pretending that the Phoenician fleet would
arrive, and that they would