The Athenians' Success in the Ionian War

After Cisicus, Farnabasis encouraged the whole Peloponnesian army and their allies not to lose heart. He sent them to Antandros with enough money to refit their fleet with as many tririmes that each of them had lost. While they were at Antandros, there came an announcement from Syracuse that there had been a democratic revolution in their city. The people shouted that they wanted their current generals to stay in command, offering their service renegades under the banished generals instead. Hermocrates refused them though, saying that he would not allow them to disobey the state and thus engage in civil war against their own city. In particular, his ambition would make