nd even that paid irregularly, and that
unless they fought a decisive battle or removed to some station where
they could get supplies, the ships' crews would desert; and that it
was all the fault of Astyochus, who humoured Tissaphernes for his own
private advantage.

The army was engaged in these reflections, when the following
disturbance took place about the person of Astyochus. Most of the
Syracusan and Thurian sailors were freemen, and these the freest crews
in the armament were likewise the boldest in setting upon Astyochus and
demanding their pay. The latter answered somewhat stiffly and threatened
them, and when Dorieus spoke up for his own sailors even went so far
as to lift his baton against him; upon seeing which the mass of men, in
sailor fashion, rushed in a fury to strike Astyochus. He, however, saw
them in time and fled for refuge to an altar; and they were thus parted
without his being struck. Meanwhile the fort built by Tissaphernes in
Miletus was surprised and taken by the Milesians, and the garrison in
it turned out--an act which met with the approval of the rest of the
allies, and in particular of the Syracusans, but which found no favour
with Lichas, who said moreover that the Milesians and the rest in the
King's country ought to show a reasonable submission to Tissaphernes and
to pay him court, until the war should be happily settled. The Milesians
were angry with him for this and for other things of the kind, and upon
his afterwards dying of sickness, would not allow him to be buried where
the Lacedaemonians with the army desired.

The discontent of the army with Astyochus and Tissaphernes had reached
this pitch, when Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus
as admiral, and assumed the command. Astyochus now set sail for home;
and Tissaphernes sent with him one of his confidants, Gaulites, a
Carian, who spoke the two languages, to complain of the Milesians for
the affair of the fort, and at the same time to defend himself against
the Milesians, who were, as he was aware, on their way to Sparta chiefly
to denounce his conduct, and had with them Hermocrates, who was to
accuse Tissaphernes of joining with Alcibiades to ruin the Peloponnesian
cause and of playing a double game. Indeed Hermocrates had always
been at enmity with him about the pay not being restored in full;
and eventually when he was banished from Syracuse, and new
commanders--Potamis, Myscon, and Demarchus--had come out to