The Athenians recall Iphikrates.—Expedition of Agesilaus against Akarnania—successful, after some delay—the Akarnanians submit, and enrol themselves in the Lacedæmonian confederacy.—The Lacedæmonians under Agesipolis invade Argos.—Manœuvre of the Argeians respecting the season of the holy truce. Agesipolis consults the oracles at Olympia and Delphi.—Earthquake in Argos after the invasion of Agesipolis—he disregards it.—He marches up near to Argos—much plunder taken—he retires.—Transactions in Asia—efforts of Sparta to detach the Great King from Athens.—The Spartan Antalkidas is sent as envoy to Tiribazus. Konon and other envoys sent also, from Athens and the anti-Spartan allies.—Antalkidas offers to surrender the Asiatic Greeks, and demands universal autonomy throughout the Grecian world—the anti-Spartan allies refuse to accede to those terms.—Hostility of Sparta to all the partial confederacies of Greece, now first proclaimed under the name of universal autonomy.—Antalkidas gains the favor of Tiribazus, who espouses privately the cause of Sparta, though the propositions for peace fail. Tiribazus seizes Konon—Konon’s career is now closed, either by death or imprisonment.—Tiribazus cannot prevail with the Persian court, which still continues hostile to Sparta. Struthas is sent down to act against the Lacedæmonians in Ionia.—Victory of Struthas over Thimbron and the Lacedæmonian army. Thimbron is slain.—Diphridas is sent to succeed Thimbron.—Lacedæmonian fleet at Rhodes—intestine disputes in the island.—The Athenians send aid to Evagoras at Cyprus. Fidelity with which they adhered to him, though his alliance had now become inconvenient.—Thrasybulus is sent with a fleet from Athens to the Asiatic coast—his acquisitions in the Hellespont and Bosphorus.—Victory of Thrasybulus in Lesbos—he levies contributions along the Asiatic coast—he is slain near Aspendus.—Character of Thrasybulus.—Agyrrhius succeeds Thrasybulus—Rhodes still holds out against the Lacedæmonians.—Anaxibius is sent to command at the Hellespont in place of Derkyllidas—his vigorous proceedings—he deprives Athens of the tolls of the strait.—The Athenians send Iphikrates with his peltasts and a fleet to the Hellespont. His stratagem to surprise Anaxibius.—Defeat and death of Anaxibius.—The Athenians are again masters of the Hellespont and the strait dues.—The island of Ægina—its past history.—The Æginetans are constrained by Sparta into war with Athens. The Lacedæmonian admiral Teleutias at Ægina. He is superseded by Hierax. His remarkable popularity among the seamen.—Hierax proceeds to Rhodes, leaving Gorgôpas at Ægina. Passage of the Lacedæmonian Antalkidas to Asia.—Gorgôpas is surprised in Ægina, defeated, and slain, by the Athenian Chabrias; who goes to assist Evagoras in Cyprus.—The Lacedæmonian seamen at Ægina unpaid and discontented.