And that in fact is what happened: the generals followed this advice, a fleet was
 assembled, the Lacedaemonians were defeated in a naval battle Off Cnidus , 394
 B.C. and lost their supremacy, while the Greeks regained their freedom
 and our city recovered in some measure its old-time glory and became leader of the allies.
 And although all this was accomplished with Conon as commander, yet Evagoras both made the
 outcome possible and furnished the greater part of the armament. In gratitude we honored them with the highest honors and set up their statues In front of the Zeus Stoa in the Agora: cf. Pausanias i. 3.
 2. where stands the image of Zeus the Savior, near to it and to one another, a
 memorial both of the magnitude of their benefactions and of their mutual friendship. The
 king of Persia , however, did not have the same
 opinion of them: on the contrary, the greater and more illustrious their deeds the more he
 feared them. Concerning Conon I will give an account elsewhere Isocrates gives a brief discussion of Conon’s affairs in Isoc. 5.62-64 . ; but that toward Evagoras he entertained this feeling not even the king himself sought to conceal. For he was manifestly more concerned about the war in Cyprus than about any other, and regarded Evagoras as a more powerful and
 formidable antagonist than Cyrus, who had disputed the throne with him. Cf. Xen. Anab. 1 for the famous expedition of Cyrus the Younger against his brother Artaxerxes II. See Isoc. 4.145 . The most convincing proof of this statement is this: when the king heard of the preparations Cyrus was making he viewed him with such contempt that because of his indifference Cyrus almost stood at the doors of his palace before he was aware of him. The battle of Cunaxa ( 401 B.C. ) in which Cyrus was slain. The distance from Babylon , according to Xenophon, was 360 stades (c. 45 miles). With regard to Evagoras, however, the king had stood in terror of him for so long a time that even while he was receiving benefits from him he had undertaken to make war upon him—a wrongful act, indeed, but his purpose was not altogether unreasonable. For the king well knew that many men, both Greeks and barbarians, starting from low and
 insignificant beginnings, had overthrown great dynasties, and he was aware too of the
 lofty ambition of Evagoras and that the growth of both his prestige and of his political
 activities was not taking place by slow degrees: also that Evagoras had unsurpassed
 natural ability and that Fortune was fighting with him as an ally. Therefore it was not in anger for the events of the past, but with forebodings for the
 future, nor yet fearing for Cyprus alone, but for
 reasons far weightier, that he undertook the war against Evagoras. In any case he threw
 himself into it with such ardor that he expended on this expedition more than fifteen
 thousand talents. A talent of gold was worth about $1200 or
 300 pounds.