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Thrasybijlijs, an Athenian general, attached to the democratic party, died about the close of 390 B. 0. In 411 he was in command of an Athenian galley in the fleet at Samos, and joined the opponents of the oligarchical government of the 400. He was soon after made a general by an assembly in the camp, and procured the pardon and recall of Alcibiades. At the battle of Oynossema he commanded the right wing, and secured the victory by a sudden attack upon the Peloponnesians. In 407", with a fleet of 30 ships, he reduced most of the revolted cities on the coast of Thrace to submission, and about the same time was with Alcibiades elected one of the new generals. Banished on the establishment of the thirty tyrants, he seized with the aid of some The-bans the fortress of Phyle, and with 1,000 men occupied Piraeus. From this place he carried on a brisk warfare against the thirty, and the ten who succeeded them, and finally delivered Athens and restored the democratic government (403). In 395 he led an army to the assistance of the Thebans, then menaced by Sparta, and in 390 was sent with 40 ships to aid the Rhodians against Teleutias, restored the Athenian interest in Byzantium, secured several new alliances, and reduced Methymna and other towns in Lesbos. Afterward sailing south, he anchored in the Eurymedon, near Aspendus in Cilicia, when the inhabitants, exasperated by some act of his soldiers, killed him in the night.
 
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