71.
The next step taken by the conspirators was to assemble the people and tell them that
they had1 acted for the best, and in order to secure them against the tyranny of Athens.
For the future they should receive neither Athenians nor Peloponnesians, unless they
came peaceably with one ship; to bring more should be deemed the act of an enemy;
[2]
and this proposal they compelled the people to ratify.
They also sent envoys to Athens, who were to put the most favourable colour on the
affair, and to dissuade the refugees who had fled thither from taking any inconvenient
step which might lead to a counter-revolution.
1 Temporary triumph of the oligarchs.
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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