Eurymedon

So finally Simon made friends with them on condition that they should pay ten talents and join him in his expedition against the barbarians.

Now Ephorus says that Tithrastes was commander of the royal fleet, and Pharyndates of the infantry, but Callisthenes says that it was Ariomandes, the son of Gobryas, who, as commander-in-chief of all the forces, lay at anchor with the fleet off the mouth of the Eurymedon, and that he was not at all eager to fight with the Hellenes, but was waiting for eighty Phoenician ships to sail up from Cyprus.

Wishing to anticipate their arrival, Simon put out to sea, prepared to force the fighting if his enemy should decline an engagement.

At first the enemy put into the river that they might not be forced to fight, but when the Athenians bore down on them there, they sailed out to meet them.