§8.52.1μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο Ἀλκιβιάδης μὲν Τισσαφέρνην παρεσκεύαζε καὶ ἀνέπειθεν ὅπως φίλος ἔσται τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, δεδιότα μὲν τοὺς Πελοποννησίους, ὅτι πλέοσι ναυσὶ τῶν Ἀθηναίων παρῆσαν, βουλόμενον δὲ ὅμως, εἰ δύναιτό πως, πεισθῆναι, ἄλλως τε καὶ ἐπειδὴ τὴν ἐν τῇ Κνίδῳ διαφορὰν περὶ τῶν Θηριμένους σπονδῶν ᾔσθετο τῶν Πελοποννησίων̔ ἤδη γὰρ κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν ἐν τῇ Ῥόδῳ ὄντων αὐτῶν ἐγεγένητὀ·
After this, Alcibiades tried to win over and persuade Tissaphernes to become a friend to the Athenians. Tissaphernes, on the one hand, feared the Peloponnesians because they were present with more ships than the Athenians; on the other hand, however, he wished, if it were somehow possible, to be persuaded—especially after he had become aware of the dispute of the Peloponnesians at Knidos concerning the treaty of Therimenes (for by this time, while they were at Rhodes, this had already occurred).
ἐν ᾗ τὸν τοῦ Ἀλκιβιάδου λόγον πρότερον εἰρημένον περὶ τοῦ ἐλευθεροῦν τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους τὰς ἁπάσας πόλεις ἐπηλήθευσεν ὁ Λίχας, οὐ φάσκων ἀνεκτὸν εἶναι ξυγκεῖσθαι κρατεῖν βασιλέα τῶν πόλεων ὧν ποτὲ καὶ πρότερον ἢ αὐτὸς ἢ οἱ πατέρες ἦρχον.
In this dispute, Lichas confirmed the truth of what Alcibiades had previously said about the Lacedaemonians liberating all the cities, by declaring that it was intolerable for it to be agreed that the King should rule over all the cities which he himself or his ancestors had formerly ruled.
καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀλκιβιάδης, ἅτε περὶ μεγάλων ἀγωνιζόμενος, προθύμως τὸν Τισσαφέρνην θεραπεύων προσέκειτο·
And so Alcibiades, since he was striving for great stakes, zealously courted Tissaphernes and pressed his suit.