But the disaffection of Phoenicia does not become open and patent until
about thirty years later. The decline of Persia had continued. In B.C.
375 an attempt to recover Egypt, for which a vast armament had been
collected under Pharnabazus and Iphicrates, completely failed.[14330]
Nine years afterwards, in B.C. 366, the revolt of the satraps began.
First Ariobarzanes, satrap of Phrygia, renounced his allegiance, and
defended himself with success against Autophradutes, satrap of Lydia,
and Mausolus, native king of Caria under Persia. Then Aspis, who held a
part of Cappadocia, revolted and maintained himself by the help of the
Pisidians, until he was overpowered by Datames. Next Datames himself,
satrap of the rest of Cappadocia, understanding that the mind of the
Persian king was poisoned against him, made a treaty with Ariobarzanes,
and assumed an independent attitude in his own province. Finally, in
B.C. 362, there seems to have been something like a general revolt
of the western provinces, in which the satraps of Mysia, Phrygia, and
Lydia, Mausolus prince of Caria, and the peoples of Lycia, Pisidia,
Pamphylia, Cilicia, and Syria participated.[14331] Then, if not earlier,
Phoenicia openly threw in her lot with the disaffected;[14332] refused
her tribute like the others, and joined her forces with theirs. Nor,
when the rebellion collapsed, did she at once return to her allegiance.
When Tachos, native king of Egypt, in B.C. 361, having secured the
services of Agesilaus and Chabrias, advanced boldly into Syria, with the
object of enlarging his own dominions at the expense of Persia, he was
received with favour by the Phoenicians, who were quite willing to form
a portion of his empire. But the rebellion of Nectanebo forced Tachos
to relinquish his projects,[14333] and the dominion over the Phoenician
cities seems to have reverted to Persia without any effort on her part.
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