s of the ships from Peloponnese and left them at
Chios, and filling their places with substitutes from Chios and manning
twenty others, sailed off to effect the revolt of Miletus. The wish of
Alcibiades, who had friends among the leading men of the Milesians, was
to bring over the town before the arrival of the ships from Peloponnese,
and thus, by causing the revolt of as many cities as possible with the
help of the Chian power and of Chalcideus, to secure the honour for the
Chians and himself and Chalcideus, and, as he had promised, for Endius
who had sent them out. Not discovered until their voyage was nearly
completed, they arrived a little before Strombichides and Thrasycles
(who had just come with twelve ships from Athens, and had joined
Strombichides in pursuing them), and occasioned the revolt of Miletus.
The Athenians sailing up close on their heels with nineteen ships found
Miletus closed against them, and took up their station at the
adjacent island of Lade. The first alliance between the King and the
Lacedaemonians was now concluded immediately upon the revolt of the
Milesians, by Tissaphernes and Chalcideus, and was as follows:

The Lacedaemonians and their allies made a treaty with the King and
Tissaphernes upon the terms following:

1. Whatever country or cities the King has, or the King's ancestors had,
shall be the king's: and whatever came in to the Athenians from these
cities, either money or any other thing, the King and the Lacedaemonians
and their allies shall jointly hinder the Athenians from receiving
either money or any other thing.

2. The war with the Athenians shall be carried on jointly by the King
and by the Lacedaemonians and their allies: and it shall not be lawful
to make peace with the Athenians except both agree, the King on his side
and the Lacedaemonians and their allies on theirs.

3. If any revolt from the King, they shall be the enemies of
the Lacedaemonians and their allies. And if any revolt from the
Lacedaemonians and their allies, they shall be the enemies of the King
in like manner.

This was the alliance. After this the Chians immediately manned ten more
vessels and sailed for Anaia, in order to gain intelligence of those
in Miletus, and also to make the cities revolt. A message, however,
reaching them from Chalcideus to tell them to go back again, and that
Amorges was at hand with an army by land, they sailed to the temple of
Zeus, and there sighting ten more ships sail