esians and gave them pay,
and concluded with them a third treaty in words following:

In the thirteenth year of the reign of Darius, while Alexippidas was
ephor at Lacedaemon, a convention was concluded in the plain of the
Maeander by the Lacedaemonians and their allies with Tissaphernes,
Hieramenes, and the sons of Pharnaces, concerning the affairs of the
King and of the Lacedaemonians and their allies.

1. The country of the King in Asia shall be the King's, and the King
shall treat his own country as he pleases.

2. The Lacedaemonians and their allies shall not invade or injure the
King's country: neither shall the King invade or injure that of the
Lacedaemonians or of their allies. If any of the Lacedaemonians or of
their allies invade or injure the King's country, the Lacedaemonians and
their allies shall prevent it: and if any from the King's country invade
or injure the country of the Lacedaemonians or of their allies, the King
shall prevent it.

3. Tissaphernes shall provide pay for the ships now present, according
to the agreement, until the arrival of the King's vessels: but after the
arrival of the King's vessels the Lacedaemonians and their allies may
pay their own ships if they wish it. If, however, they choose to receive
the pay from Tissaphernes, Tissaphernes shall furnish it: and the
Lacedaemonians and their allies shall repay him at the end of the war
such moneys as they shall have received.

4. After the vessels have arrived, the ships of the Lacedaemonians and
of their allies and those of the King shall carry on the war jointly,
according as Tissaphernes and the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall
think best. If they wish to make peace with the Athenians, they shall
make peace also jointly.

This was the treaty. After this Tissaphernes prepared to bring up the
Phoenician fleet according to agreement, and to make good his other
promises, or at all events wished to make it appear that he was so
preparing.

Winter was now drawing towards its close, when the Boeotians took Oropus
by treachery, though held by an Athenian garrison. Their accomplices in
this were some of the Eretrians and of the Oropians themselves, who
were plotting the revolt of Euboea, as the place was exactly opposite
Eretria, and while in Athenian hands was necessarily a source of great
annoyance to Eretria and the rest of Euboea. Oropus being in their
hands, the Eretrians now came to Rhodes to invite the Peloponnesians
into