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354 HISTORY OP CNIDTJS.
commander held a conference with. Tissaphernes,
in the hope of negotiating a treaty ; on the failure
of which, the fleet proceeded to Rhodes/
Eighteen years after these events, B.C. 394, the
great naval engagement took place near Cnidus, by
which Conon utterly defeated the Lacedaemonian
fleet, and restored to Athens the empire of the
sea.x It is not improhahle that this victory was
commemorated by a public monument near Cnidus,
which will he more fully described in a subsequent
part of this work. At the time of this victory,
Cnidus was still in the possession of the Lacedae-
monians, and gave refuge to the remains of their
fleet. It continued faithful to them, notwith-
standing the renewed ascendancy of Athens ; for,
four years after the victory of Conon, Ave find a La-
cedaemonian naval commander, Tclcutias, making
use of Cnidus as a naval station, and selling there
a number of Athenian ships, which he captured on
their way to assist Evagoras, king of Cyprus.7
During the period between the Pcloponnesian war
and the invasion of Alexander, we have hardly
any information as to the history of Cnidus,
except the fact, that Eudoxus, the celebrated
astronomer, compiled a code of laws for this,
his native place.7. These legislative measures of
Eudoxus were probably connected with the political
changes which, according to Aristotle, had taken
place at Cnidus, and by which an oligarchical form
"' Thucyd. viii. 43. x Xenoph. Hellen. iv. 3, 10.
y Xenoph. Hellen. iv. 8, 24.
1 Diogen. Laert. viii. 8. Plutarch adv. Colot. p. 1126, Eylandr.
commander held a conference with. Tissaphernes,
in the hope of negotiating a treaty ; on the failure
of which, the fleet proceeded to Rhodes/
Eighteen years after these events, B.C. 394, the
great naval engagement took place near Cnidus, by
which Conon utterly defeated the Lacedaemonian
fleet, and restored to Athens the empire of the
sea.x It is not improhahle that this victory was
commemorated by a public monument near Cnidus,
which will he more fully described in a subsequent
part of this work. At the time of this victory,
Cnidus was still in the possession of the Lacedae-
monians, and gave refuge to the remains of their
fleet. It continued faithful to them, notwith-
standing the renewed ascendancy of Athens ; for,
four years after the victory of Conon, Ave find a La-
cedaemonian naval commander, Tclcutias, making
use of Cnidus as a naval station, and selling there
a number of Athenian ships, which he captured on
their way to assist Evagoras, king of Cyprus.7
During the period between the Pcloponnesian war
and the invasion of Alexander, we have hardly
any information as to the history of Cnidus,
except the fact, that Eudoxus, the celebrated
astronomer, compiled a code of laws for this,
his native place.7. These legislative measures of
Eudoxus were probably connected with the political
changes which, according to Aristotle, had taken
place at Cnidus, and by which an oligarchical form
"' Thucyd. viii. 43. x Xenoph. Hellen. iv. 3, 10.
y Xenoph. Hellen. iv. 8, 24.
1 Diogen. Laert. viii. 8. Plutarch adv. Colot. p. 1126, Eylandr.