Artaxerxes was thus enabled to withdraw from the country without serious disaster, having shown in his short campaign that he possessed the qualities of a soldier, but was entirely deficient in those of a general.
A time of comparative tranquillity seems to have followed the Cadusian campaign.

Artaxerxes strengthened his hold upon the Asiatic Greeks by razing some of their towns and placing garrisons in others.

His satraps even ventured to commence the absorption of the islands off the coast; and there is evidence that Sanaos, at any rate, was reduced and added to the Empire.

Cilicia, Phoenicia, and Idumaea were doubtless recovered soon after the great defeat of Evagoras.

There remained only one province in this quarter which still maintained its revolt, and enjoyed, under native monarchs, the advantages of independence.