§8.83.1οἱ δὲ Πελοποννήσιοι ἐν τῇ Μιλήτῳ πυνθανόμενοι τὴν τοῦ Ἀλκιβιάδου κάθοδον, καὶ πρότερον τῷ Τισσαφέρνει ἀπιστοῦντες πολλῷ δὴ μᾶλλον ἔτι διεβέβληντο.
Meanwhile, the Peloponnesians at Miletus, on hearing of the return of Alcibiades, and having already distrusted Tissaphernes before, became now far more exasperated against him than ever.
§8.83.2ξυνηνέχθη γὰρ αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὸν ἐπὶ τὴν Μίλητον τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐπίπλουν, ὡς οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ἀνταναγαγόντες ναυμαχῆσαι, πολλῷ ἐς τὴν μισθοδοσίαν τὸν Τισσαφέρνην ἀρρωστότερον γενόμενον καὶ ἐς τὸ μισεῖσθαι ὑπ’ αὐτῶν πρότερον ἔτι τούτων διὰ τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην ἐπιδεδωκέναι.
For it happened to them, at the time of the Athenians' sailing against Miletus, when they refused to go out and fight them, that Tissaphernes became much more remiss in paying their wages, and that even before this, his unpopularity with them had increased because of Alcibiades.
§8.83.3καὶ ξυνιστάμενοι κατ’ ἀλλήλους οἷάπερ καὶ πρότερον οἱ στρατιῶται ἀνελογίζοντο καί τινες καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἀξίων λόγου ἀνθρώπων καὶ οὐ μόνον τὸ στρατιωτικόν, ὡς οὔτε μισθὸν ἐντελῆ πώποτε λάβοιεν, τό τε διδόμενον βραχὺ καὶ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ξυνεχῶς· καὶ εἰ μή τις ἢ διαναυμαχήσει ἢ ἀπαλλάξεται ὅθεν τροφὴν ἕξει, ἀπολείψειν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τὰς ναῦς· πάντων τε Ἀστύοχον εἶναι αἴτιον ἐπιφέροντα ὀργὰς Τισσαφέρνει διὰ ἴδια κέρδη.
And assembling together in groups, as they had done before, the soldiers began to reckon up their grievances, and some of the other men of note as well, and not only the common soldiers: how they had never received their full pay, and what was given was small and even this not paid regularly; and that unless someone either fought a decisive battle or removed them to a place where they could get provisions, the men would desert the ships; and they laid the blame for all this on Astyochus, who, for his own private gain, put up with Tissaphernes' whims.