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the whole iiland of Cyprus ; in which, within the 
courfe of a few years, he made a very confiderable 
progrefs. This alarming the Amathufians, Citieans, 
and Solians, governed then, as it diould feem, by 
their own princes, they (78) made the proper 
difpofitions for oppofing his ambitious defigns. But 
not believing themfelves able alone to cope with him, 
they applied to the Perfian (79) court for adidance. 
Artaxerxes Mnemon, who then fat upon the Perfian 
throne, was alfo himfelf become jealous of the grow- 
ing power of Euagoras, and therefore readily entered 
into an alliance with the three confederated cities 
againft him. To this he was farther excited by the 
murder of Agyris, king of Amathus, and one of 
his mod: faithful allies, of which Euagoras (80) was 
accufed ; and by the engagement the three Cyprian 
dates had entered into, to put the whole iiland, if 
poihble, into his hands. In order therefore to cruih 
Euagoras at once, Artaxerxes fent an army of 300,000 
men, under the command of Orontes, one of his 
fons-in-law, to invade Cyprus (81), in the third year 
of the ninety-eighth Olympiad, or the year before 
Chrid 386. This formidable army was attended by 
a deet of above 300 (82) fail, of which Gaus, the 
(78) Diod. Sic. ubi Tup. p. 447. 
(79) Id. ibid. 
(80) Id. ibid. 
(81) Diod. Sic. ubi fup. Lib. XV. p. 458. 
(82) Id. ibid. The Phoenician. name tam feems to have 
been written by the Greeks TAMOS, as it is exhibited by a 
MS. of Thucydides, in the French king’s library; and not 
TAMOS, as we find it written in other manufcripts of that author. 
This is rendered not a little probable, at leaf in my opinion, by 
the Oxford-Citiean infcription. 
Vid. Thucydid. Ds Bell. Pelopcnnef. Lib. VIII. c. 87. p. 557. 
Edit. Dukcr. AmRelaedami, 1731. 
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