[The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia by George Rawlinson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia CHAPTER VII 178/285
Peace was made on the following terms:--Athens agreed to relinquish Cyprus, and recall her squadron from Egypt; while the king consented to grant freedom to all the Greek cities on the Asiatic continent, and not to menace them either by land or water.
The sea was divided between the two powers, Persian ships of war were not to sail to the west of Phaselis in the Levant, or of the Cyanean islands in the Euxine; and Greek war-ships, we may assume, were not to show themselves east of those limits.
On these conditions there was to be peace and amity between the Greeks and the Persians, and neither nation was to undertake any expeditions against the territories of the other.
Thus terminated the first period of hostility between Greece and Persia, a period of exactly half a century, commencing B.C.499 and.
ending B.C.449, in the seventeenth year of Artaxerxes. It was probably not many years after the conclusion of this peace that a rebellion broke out in Syria.
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