Next, there is his campaign against Evagoras. Evagoras is ruler over but a single
 city Salamis ; he is given over to the Persians by the terms of the
 Treaty See terms of Treaty of Antalcidas given in note on
 115. ; his is an insular power and he has already sustained a disaster to his
 fleet; he has, at present, for the defense of his territory only three thousand
 light-armed troops; yet, humble as is the power of Evagoras, the King has not the power to
 conquer it in war, but has already frittered away six years in the attempt; and, if we may
 conjecture the future by the past, there is much more likelihood that someone else will
 rise in revolt before Evagoras is reduced by the siege—so slothful is the King in his
 enterprises. Again, in the Rhodian War, The war between Persia and Sparta which ended with the battle of Cnidus , 394 B.C. Conon, after the battle of
 Aegospotami in which he had been one of the
 generals, took service with the Persians, and was the captain of the fleet in this
 battle. the King had the good will of the allies of Lacedaemon because of the harshness with which they were governed, he
 availed himself of the help of our seamen; and at the head of his forces was Conon, who
 was the most competent of our generals, who possessed more than any other the confidence
 of the Hellenes, and who was the most experienced in the hazards of war; yet, although the
 King had such a champion to help him in the war, he suffered the fleet which bore the
 brunt of the defense of Asia to be bottled up for
 three years by only an hundred ships, and for fifteen months he deprived the soldiers of
 their pay; and the result would have been, had it depended upon the King alone, that they
 would have been disbanded more than once; but, thanks to their commander Conon. and to the alliance which was formed at
 Corinth , The
 alliance of Argos , Thebes , Athens , Euboea , Corinth , and Sparta , formed at Corinth 
 ( Xen. Hell. 4.4.1 ). they barely succeeded in
 winning a naval victory. And these were the most royal and the most imposing of his achievements, and these are
 the deeds about which people are never weary of speaking who are fain to exalt the power
 of the barbarians! So no one can say that I am not fair in my use of instances, nor that I
 dwell upon the minor undertakings of the King and pass over the most important; for I have striven to forestall just such a complaint, and have recounted the most
 glorious of his exploits. I do not, however, forget his minor campaigns; I do not forget
 that Dercylidas, Succeeded Thimbron as commander of the
 Spartan fleet, 399 B.C. He is said to have taken nine cities
 in eight days ( Xen. Hell. 3.2.1 ). with a
 thousand heavy-armed troops, extended his power over Aeolis ; that Draco Appointed harmost of
 Atarneus by Dercylidas, 398 B.C. ( Xen. Hell.
 3.2.11 ). took possession of Atarneus , and afterwards collected an army of three thousand light-armed
 men, and devastated the plains of Mysia ; that
 Thimbron, Admiral of Spartan fleet 400
 B.C. ( Xen. Hell. 3.1.4 ). with a force
 only a little larger, crossed over into Lydia and
 plundered the whole country; and that Agesilaus, with the help of the army of Cyrus,
 conquered almost all the territory this side of the Halys
 river . The campaign of Agesilaus occurred in
 395 B.C. ( Xen. Hell.
 3.4.20 ). 
 And assuredly we have no greater reason to fear the army which wanders about Contemptuous, recalling Aristoph.
 Ach. 81 . with the King nor the valor of the Persians themselves; for
 they were clearly shown by the troops who marched inland The famous “ten thousand” led by Cleararchus, a Spartan, were employed by Cyrus, the
 younger son of Dareius, against his brother Artaxerxes, the Persian king, 401-399. The
 death of Cyrus, due to his rashness in the very moment of victory, deprived the
 rebellion of its leader and left the Greek army stranded in the heart of Asia . Xenophon, who has described this expedition in the
 Anabasis , led the remnant of this army after many months of hardship
 back to the shore of the Black Sea. See Grote, Hist. viii. pp. 3O3 ff.
 The expedition, though unsuccessful in its purpose, was regarded as a triumph of courage
 and a demonstration of the superiority of the Greeks over the Persians in warfare. The
 episode is used in Isoc. 5.90-93 with the same point as
 here. with Cyrus to be no better than the King’s soldiers who live on the coast.
 I refrain from speaking of all the other battles in which the Persians were worsted, and I
 am willing to grant that they were split with factions, and so where not inclined to throw
 themselves wholeheartedly into the struggle against the King’s brother.