Byzantium

and afterwards against Byzantium, of which the Medes were in possession, and reduced it during this period of his command.

and this was none of the least reasons why the confederates went over from him to the Athenians.

and could no longer live in the ordinary style, but went out of Byzantium clothed in a Median dress;

Now this place which is called Calpe Harbour is situated in Thrace -in-Asia;

for as I heard from a man who chanced to arrive here yesterday on a ship, Cleander, the Lacedaemonian governor at Byzantium, is to come here with merchant vessels and men-of-war.

It is a long day’s journey for a trireme to row from Byzantium to Heracleia, and between the two places there is no other city, either friendly or Greek, only Bithynian Thracians;

They sailed to the Hellespont and made Byzantium and all the other cities of that region subject to themselves.

They manned eight triremes, and sailed with Histiaeus to Byzantium;

Then the fleet departed from Ionia and captured everything which lies to the left of one sailing up the Hellespont;

While Pharnabazus was conducting this party, the Athenians were besieging Byzantium;

As has been said, however, these betrayers made their preparations, and then, opening by night the gates that lead to the Thracian Square, as it is called, let in the Athenian army and Alcibiades.

Three of his ships were destroyed in the Hellespont by the nine Attic ships which were continually on duty there to protect the Athenian merchantmen, but the rest escaped to Sestus and from there made their way safely to Byzantium.

(The Decree of the Byzantines is read)

But who sent reinforcements to the Byzantines and delivered them?

Now read of the crowns of the Byzantines and of the Perinthians, conferred by them upon the city for these services.

Yes, look at his imposture when he says that by his services as envoy he dragged Byzantium from Philip’s hands, and caused the revolt of the Acarnanians, and carried the Thebans away by his harangues.

By iron money, as in Byzantium?

As I have visited many places and spend my time in your exchange, I know most of those who are seafarers, and with these men from Byzantium I am on intimate terms through having myself spent much time there.

In the second place, will you not wrong Archebius and Heraclides, who by putting Byzantium into the hands of Thrasybulus made you masters of the Hellespont, so that you farmed out the toll of ten per cent, and thus being well furnished with money forced the Lacedaemonians to conclude a peace favorable to you?

Suppose at the present day a party of those in power at Pydna or Potidaea or any of those other places which are subject to Philip and hostile to you— just as Thasos and Byzantium then were friendly to the Lacedaemonians and estranged from you—promised to hand them over to you in return for the same rewards that you gave to Ecphantus of Thasos and Archebius of Byzantium;

and he sailed to Byzantium as agent in his interest, when the Byzantines detained Phormio’s vessels, and he pleaded his cause against the Calchedonians, and he has thus flagrantly given false witness against me.

but today their hostility is confirmed, the danger, if he reduces Byzantium, is at their very doors, and not only will they eagerly join the war against him.

Or from taking Selymbria, once an ally of yours, and making it tributary to themselves, and including it in the territory of Byzantium, contrary to all oaths and agreements which guarantee the autonomy of those cities?

But at Athens, though Philip has not only robbed you of Amphipolis and the Cardian territory, but is also turning Euboea into a fortress to overawe us and is even now on his way to attack Byzantium, it is safe to speak on Philip’s behalf.

The older men would know—and in all fairness you ought to inform the younger ones—of the hearing granted Python of Byzantium before the Assembly when he arrived with the envoys from the Greeks, expecting to show that the city was acting unjustly, but went away with the tables turned against him after I, alone of those who spoke on that occasion, had brought out the rights of the matter in your defence.

What if he quits Thrace and never approaches the Chersonese or Byzantium—for you must take that also into your reckoning—but turns up at Chalcis and Megara, just as he did at Oreus not long ago?

Nay, even if there are others whom they distrust more than us, I think they will rather admit such within their walls than surrender their city to Philip—if indeed he does not forestall them by capturing it.

Now, if he waits for the Etesian winds to blow and marches to the siege of Byzantium, do you think that the Byzantines will remain in their present state of infatuation and will not call upon you and demand your help?

But, though the transfer of the seat of empire to Byzantium gave a perceptible impetus to its cultivation in the East, jurisprudence never dethroned the pursuits which there competed with it.

as Byzantium was to Perinthus, by the Emperor Severus, and Antioch to Laodicea, by Theodosius.

The people of Chios, of Mytilen, and of Byzantium remained loyal, but the Thebans, although they dwelt in a city of such importance, did not have the fortitude even to remain neutral, but were guilty of such cowardice and baseness as to give their solemn oath to join the Lacedaemonians in attacking you, the saviors of their city.

For when I wished to recover my money and sail to Byzantium, Pasion thought a most favorable opportunity had come his way;

Caecilius Capella, in that end at Byzantium, cried out, "Christians, rejoice!

For himself he buys nothing, but for foreigners he sends purchases to Byzantium, Laconian hounds to Cyzicus, and Hymettian honey to Rhodes;