Remember, too, I beg you, the many benefits he conferred upon the city after his return
 from exile, and, even before that time, the state of affairs here when you received him
 back: the democracy had been overthrown, By the Revolution
 of the Four Hundred. the citizens were in a state of civil war, the army was
 disaffected toward the government established here, and both parties had reached such a
 state of madness that neither had any hope of salvation. For the one party the Athenian army and fleet, sympathetic
 the the democracy, were at the island of Samos ( Thuc. 8.82 
 and Thuc. 8.86 ). regarded those who were in
 possession of the city as greater enemies than the Lacedaemonians The oligarchs in Athens. and the other were making overtures to the
 Spartan forces in Decelea, judging that it was preferable to hand over their country to
 its enemies rather than to give a share in the rights of citizenship to those who were
 fighting for the city. Such was the state of mind of the citizens: the enemy was in control of land and sea;
 your financial resources were exhausted, while the Persian king was supplying them with
 funds; furthermore, ninety ships had come from Phoenicia The Persian king depended largely upon Phoenicia for ships of war. to
 Aspendus Aspendus, a town in Asia Minor, in Pamphylia,
 was situated on the river Eurymedon. and were prepared to aid the Lacedaemonians.
 By so many misfortunes and such perils was the city beset when the army summoned my father, and he did not treat them with disdain in their plight,
 nor did he rebuke them for the past, nor did he deliberate about the future; on the
 contrary, he chose at once to suffer any misfortune with his country rather than to enjoy
 prosperity with the Lacedaemonians, and he made it manifest to all that he was warring on
 those who had banished him and not on you, and that his heart was set on a return to
 Athens and not on her ruin. Having thrown in his lot with you, he persuaded Tissaphernes Persian satrap of western Asia Minor from 414
 B.C. not to furnish the Lacedaemonians with money, checked the defection
 of your allies, distributed pay from his own resources to the soldiers, restored political
 power to the people, reconciled the citizens, and turned back the Phoenician fleet.