28.
The magistrates, knowing that they were helpless, and that they would be in peril of
their1 lives if they were left out of the convention, concluded a general agreement
with Paches and his army, stipulating that the fate of the Mytilenaeans should be left
in the hands of the Athenians at home.
They were to receive him and his forces into the city; but might send an embassy to Athens on their own behalf.
Until the envoys returned, Paches was not to bind, enslave, or put to death any
Mytilenaean.
[2]
These were the terms of the capitulation.
Nevertheless, when the army entered, those Mytilenaeans who had been principally
concerned with the Lacedaemonians were in an agony of fear, and could not be satisfied
until they had taken refuge at the altars.
Paches raised them up, and promising not to hurt them, deposited them at Tenedos until
the Athenians should come to a decision.
[3]
He also sent triremes to Antissa, of which he gained possession, and took such other
military measures as he deemed best.
1 The government, feeling their helplessness, surrender the city to Paches, on condition that the Athenians at home should decide on the fate of the inhabitants
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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