Samsun

The sailors, supposing, that if they gave up the half they would be allowed undisturbed possession of the rest did so but dionysius when he had received it ordered them to go back and bring him the other half the mendeans used the proceeds of their harbour customs and their other dues for the administration of their city but did not exact the taxes on land and houses but they kept a register of property-owners and whenever they needed money those who owed taxes paid them they thus profited during the time which elapsed by having full use of the money without paying interest when they were at war with the olynthians and needed money seeing that they had slaves they decreed that a female and a male slave should be left to each citizen and the rest sold so that private individuals might lend money to the state callistratus when the harbour dues in macedonia were usually sold at twenty talents made them fetch double that price for noticing that the richer men always bought them because it was necessary that the sureties provided for the twenty talents should be possessed of one talent he proclaimed that any one who liked could purchase them and that sureties should be provided for only a third or any other proportion which he could persuade them each to guarantee timotheus the athenian when he was at war with the olynthians and in need of money struck a bronze coinage and distributed it to the soldiers when they protested he told them that the merchants and retailers would all sell their goods on the same terms as before he then told the merchants if they received any bronze money to use it again to buy the commodities sent in for sale from the country and anything which was brought in as plunder and said that if they brought him any bronze money which they had left over they should receive silver for it when he was making war in the neighbourhood of corcyra and was in difficulties and the soldiers were demanding their pay and refusing to obey him and threatening to go over to the enemy he called together an assembly and told them that no money could reach him owing to the stormy weather for he had he declared such an abundance of supplies that he offered them as a free gift the three months rations which they had already received they supposing that timotheus would never have made such a valuable concession unless he really expected the money kept silence about the pay and he meanwhile achieved the objects which he had in view when he was besieging samos he actually sold to the inhabitants the fruits and the produce of their lands and so had abundance of money to pay his soldiers and when there was a shortage of provisions in the camp owing to the arrival of newcomers he forbade the sale of corn ready ground and of any smaller measure than a medimnus and of any liquid in a smaller quantity than a matrita accordingly the commanders of divisions and companies bought up provisions wholesale and distributed them to the soldiers while the newcomers brought their own provisions with them and when they departed sold anything that they had left the result was that the soldiers had an abundance of provisions didalus the persian having soldiers under his command could supply their daily needs from the enemy's country but having no money to give them and being requested to pay them when the time came at which it was due he devised the following plan he called together an assembly and told them that he had no lack of money but that it was in a certain place which he named he therefore moved his camp and started to march thither then when he was near the place he went in advance to it and took from the temples there all the embossed silver plate which they contained he then loaded his mules so that the silver plate was visible and they looked as though they were carrying solid silver the soldiers when they saw it thought that the loads were all solid silver and were encouraged, thinking that they would receive their pay.

But Daedalus told them that he must go to Amisus, and have the silver minted.

Now the journey to Amisus was one of many days, and exposed to the weather.

So all this time he made use of the army, merely giving them their rations.

He kept in his personal service all the skilled artificers in the army, and the retailers who carried on traffic in any commodity.