In addition to all this, on the charge that, when I was on military service and had collected mercenaries with AmeiniasApparently an otherwise unknown commander of mercenary troops, under whom Mantitheus served as taxiarch.(seeing that I was well-provided with funds from other sources, and had collected from Mytilene from your proxenusA state representative in a foreign land, somewhat analogous to our consul. Apollonides and the friends of our city three hundred Phocaic staters,The stater of Phocaea (a city on the coast of Ionia) was a gold coin somewhat heavier than the stater of Cyzicus (Dem. 34.23). and had spent that sum upon these troops, in order that a matter might be prosecuted which was of advantage to you and to them alike)—