356 TISSAPHERNES REDUCES THE PAY [viii 29 During the following winter, Tissaphernes, after he had Reduction of pay. Provided for the security of lasus, came Tissaphernes agrees to to Miletus. There he distributed one give three talents to month's pay among all the ships, at every five ships, or , . r a • 1 1 rather more than three ^"^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^"IC drachma" a day obols a day to each per man, as his envoy had promised at
- ""■ Lacedaemon ; in future he proposed to
give half a drachma only until he had asked the King's leave, promising that if he obtained it he would pay the entire drachma. On the remonstrance, however, of Her- mocrates the Syracusan general (Theramenes, not being himself admiral, but only taking charge of the ships which he was to hand over to Astyochus, took no interest in the matter of the pay), he promised to each man a payment of somewhat more than three obols, reckoning the total sum paid to every five ships. For he offered to every five ships, up to the number of fifty-five , three talents a month, and to any ships in excess of this number he agreed to give at a like rate. 30 During the same winter there arrived at Samos from Arrival of reinforce- Athens thirty-five ships, under the com- ments. Muster at mand of Charminus, Strombichides, Samos and redistribu- ^^d Euctemon. Whereupon the tion of the Athenian ' fleet. Thirty-three ships generals assembled their whole fleet, sent to Chios ; seventy- including the ships engaged at Chios ^, four remain at Samos. ti^^jj. purpose being to make a distribu- tion of their forces by lot. The principal division was to continue watching Miletus, while a second force of ships and soldiers was to be sent to Chios. Accordingly Strom- bichides, Onomacles, and Euctemon, with thirty ships, besides transports in which the}' conveyed a portion of the thousand heavy-armed who had joined the army at Miletus «J, sailed away to Chios, the duty which the lot assigned to them. The other generals remaining at Samos with ' 8rf *• Retaining, with the MSS., Kn nfvrifiieofTa after vavs; sec note. Cp. viii. 24 init. ^ Cp. viii. 25 init.
