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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: pinch of war, the satrap would very soon agree to grant us
independence." The ephors, on hearing this, sent a despatch to
Dercylidas, and bade him cross the frontier with his army into Caria,
whilst Pharax the admiral coasted round with the fleet. These orders
were carried out. Meanwhile a visitor had reached Tissaphernes. This
was not less a person than Pharnabazus. His coming was partly owing to
the fact that Tissaphernes had been appointed general-in-chief, and
party in order to testify his readiness to make common cause with his
brother satrap in fighting and expelling the Hellenes from the king's
territory; for if his heart was stirred by jealousy on account of the
generalship bestowed upon his rival, he was not the less aggrieved at
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