and.

About the same time Alcibiades returned with his thirteen ships from
Caunus and Phaselis to Samos, bringing word that he had prevented
the Phoenician fleet from joining the Peloponnesians, and had made
Tissaphernes more friendly to the Athenians than before. Alcibiades
now manned nine more ships, and levied large sums of money from the
Halicarnassians, and fortified Cos. After doing this and placing a
governor in Cos, he sailed back to Samos, autumn being now at hand.
Meanwhile Tissaphernes, upon hearing that the Peloponnesian fleet had
sailed from Miletus to the Hellespont, set off again back from Aspendus,
and made all sail for Ionia. While the Peloponnesians were in the
Hellespont, the Antandrians, a people of Aeolic extraction, conveyed by
land across Mount Ida some heavy infantry from Abydos, and introduced
them into the town; having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the Persian
lieutenant of Tissaphernes. This same Arsaces had, upon pretence of
a secret quarrel, invited the chief men of the Delians to undertake
military service (these were Delians who had settled at Atramyttium
after having been driven from their homes by the Athenians for the sake
of purifying Delos); and after drawing them out from their town as his
friends and allies, had laid wait for them at dinner, and surrounded
them and caused them to be shot down by his soldiers. This deed made the
Antandrians fear that he might some day do them some mischief; and as
he also laid upon them burdens too heavy for them to bear, they expelled
his garrison from their citadel.

Tissaphernes, upon hearing of this act of the Peloponnesians in addition
to what had occurred at Miletus and Cnidus, where his garrisons had been
also expelled, now saw that the breach between them was serious; and
fearing further injury from them, and being also vexed to think that
Pharnabazus should receive them, and in less time and at less cost
perhaps succeed better against Athens than he had done, determined to
rejoin them in the Hellespont, in order to complain of the events at
Antandros and excuse himself as best he could in the matter of the
Phoenician fleet and of the other charges against him. Accordingly he
went first to Ephesus and offered sacrifice to Artemis....

[When the winter after this summer is over the twenty-first year of this
war will be completed. ]

THE END

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