296 HISTORY OF GREECE. of them, a few years afterwards, in joint revolt with Ariobarzanes himself against the Persian king. 1 Agesilaus obtained, from all three, pecuniary aid for Sparta. 2 The acquisition of Samos, while it exalted the reputation of Timotheus, materially enlarged the maritime dominion of Athens. It seems also to have weakened the hold of the Great King on Asia Minor, to have disposed the residents, both satraps and Grecian cities, to revolt, and thus to have helped Ariobarzanes, who rewarded both Agesilaus and Timotheus. Agesilaus was enabled to carry home a sum of money to his embarrassed coun- trymen ; but Timotheus, declining pecuniary aid, obtained for Athens the more valuable boon of readmission to the Thracian Chersonese. Ariobarzanes made over to him Sestus and Kri- thote in that peninsula; possessions doubly precious, as they secured to the Athenians a partial mastery of the passage of the Hellespont ; with a large circumjacent territory for occupation. 3 Samos and the Chersonese were not simply new tributary con- federates aggregated to the Athenian synod. They were, in large proportion, new territories acquired to Athens, open to be occu pied by Athenian citizens as out-settlers or kleruchs. Much of the Chersonese had been possessed by Athenian citizens, even from the time of the first Miltiades and afterwards down to the destruction of the Athenian empire in 405 n. c. Though al' these proprietors had been then driven home and expropriated, they had never lost the hope of a favorable turn of fortune and 1 It is with the greatest difficulty that we make out anything like a thread of events at this period ; so miserably scanty and indistinct are our autho- rities. Rehdantz (Vite Iphicratis, Chabrise, et Timothei, chap, v, p. 118-130) is an instructive auxiliary in putting together the scraps of information ; com pare also Weissenborn, Hellen. p. 192-194 (Jena, 1844).
- Xen. Enc. Ages, ii, 26, 27.
3 Isokrates, Or. xv, (De Permut.) s. 115-119; Cornelius Nepos, Timo- theus, c. 1. Isokrates particularly dwells upon the fact that the conquests of Timo- thcus secured to Athens a large circumjacent territory uv hr/pdeiffiJv uTrof 6 roTrof irepiexuv olxelof i]vayK.u.adr) rf/ TfoTi.et yEveati ;, etc. (t. 114). From the value of the Hellespont to Athens as ensuring a regular sapplj of corn imported from the Euxine, Sestus was sometimes called " the flour- board of the Pciraius " // rrjla rev lletpaitif (Aristot. Rhetor, iii, 10, 3)
