e, and lastly to prejudice
the enemy as strongly as possible against Tissaphernes, and blast the
hopes which they entertained. Alcibiades accordingly held out to the
army such extravagant promises as the following: that Tissaphernes had
solemnly assured him that if he could only trust the Athenians they
should never want for supplies while he had anything left, no, not even
if he should have to coin his own silver couch, and that he would bring
the Phoenician fleet now at Aspendus to the Athenians instead of to the
Peloponnesians; but that he could only trust the Athenians if Alcibiades
were recalled to be his security for them.

Upon hearing this and much more besides, the Athenians at once elected
him general together with the former ones, and put all their affairs
into his hands. There was now not a man in the army who would have
exchanged his present hopes of safety and vengeance upon the Four
Hundred for any consideration whatever; and after what they had been
told they were now inclined to disdain the enemy before them, and to
sail at once for Piraeus. To the plan of sailing for Piraeus, leaving
their more immediate enemies behind them, Alcibiades opposed the most
positive refusal, in spite of the numbers that insisted upon it,
saying that now that he had been elected general he would first sail
to Tissaphernes and concert with him measures for carrying on the
war. Accordingly, upon leaving this assembly, he immediately took
his departure in order to have it thought that there was an entire
confidence between them, and also wishing to increase his consideration
with Tissaphernes, and to show that he had now been elected general and
was in a position to do him good or evil as he chose; thus managing
to frighten the Athenians with Tissaphernes and Tissaphernes with the
Athenians.

Meanwhile the Peloponnesians at Miletus heard of the recall of
Alcibiades and, already distrustful of Tissaphernes, now became far more
disgusted with him than ever. Indeed after their refusal to go out
and give battle to the Athenians when they appeared before Miletus,
Tissaphernes had grown slacker than ever in his payments; and even
before this, on account of Alcibiades, his unpopularity had been on
the increase. Gathering together, just as before, the soldiers and some
persons of consideration besides the soldiery began to reckon up how
they had never yet received their pay in full; that what they did
receive was small in quantity, a