Perinthus

then, as soon as peace had come, he persuaded his state that the Thracians were injuring the Greek, and, after gaining his point as best he could from the ephors, set sail with the intention of making war upon the Thracians who dwelt beyond the Chersonese and Perinthus.

With these words he departed within the walls of Perinthus.

Xenophon replied, Anaxibius so ordered, and sent me here for that purpose.

At the outset we took anchorage at Perinthus with only ten ships, having heard that he was in the neighborhood, and hoping to meet him and talk matters over.

Now suppose that one of those orators who spoke on behalf of Philiscus, at a time when he was paymaster of the mercenaries at Perinthus, when he held all the Hellespont, and was the most powerful of viceroys, had then, like Aristocrates today, moved a resolution that whosoever killed Philiscus should be liable to seizure in allied territory.

Then too—nor is this a matter of small importance—quite recently the satraps of Asia Minor sent a force of mercenaries and compelled Philip to raise the siege of Perinthus;

(The Decree of the Byzantines is read)

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

In the recordership of Bosporichus, Damagetus proposed in the Assembly, with the sanction of the Council, that, whereas the Athenian People in former times have been constant friends of the Byzantines and of their allies and kinsmen the Perinthians, and have conferred many great services upon them, and recently, when Philip of Macedon attacked their land and city to exterminate the Byzantines and …

Those Persians whom Darius had left in Europe under the command of Megabazus, finding the Perinthians unwilling to be Darius ' subjects, subdued them before any others of the people of the Hellespont.

For the oracle of the god ordered the Paeonians from the Strymon to march against Perinthus, and if the Perinthians, who were encamped opposite them, should call to them, crying out their name, then to attack them.

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

And the Perinthians admitted the Athenian forces to their city, and the Selymbrians, while not admitting them, gave them money.

There Alcibiades remained for twenty days, and after obtaining a great deal of money from the Cyzicenes, but without doing any further harm in the city, sailed back to Proconnesus.