Consequently when my affairs were in the condition which I have described, and at the same time I was ordered by the general, Timomachus, to sail to HieronHieron was on the eastern shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus (the straight between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof). to convoy the grain, though he provided no pay (word had been brought that the Byzantines and the Calchedonians were again bringing the ships into port and forcing them to unload their grain), I borrowed money from Archidemus of Anaphlystus, Anaphlystus, a deme of the tribe Antiochis. fifteen minae at interest, and I secured from Nicippus, the shipowner, who happened to be in Sestus, Sestus, also a town on the Hellespont. eight hundred drachmae, as a maritime loan at 12 1/2 per cent, on condition that I should pay him principal and interest when the ship should get safely back to Athens.

Further, I sent Euctemon, the pentecontarch, The pentecontarch was properly an under-officer in charge of a tier of fifty oarsmen. to Lampsacus, Lampsacus, a town on the Hellespont. giving him money and letters to friends of my father, and bade him hire for me the best sailors he could. I myself stayed in Sestus and gave some money—all I had—to the old sailors who stayed with me, since the term of my trierarchy had expired, and I secured also some other sailors at full pay, while the general was making ready for his voyage to Hieron.