Now the Athenians, finding themselves in need of additional funds for the siege, having then for the first time resorted to a property taxThe ἐσφορά was an extraordinary tax levied only in war time. See Boeckh, Public Economy, p. 612. upon themselves to the amount of two hundred talents, also sent to the allies twelve ships under the command of Lysicles and four others, to collect money from them.

He cruised about and collected money at various places; but on his way inland from Myus in Caria through the plain of the Meander, after he had reached the hill of Sandius, he was attacked by the Carians and the Anaeitans and slain, together with many of his army.