72.
When the envoys arrived, the Athenians arrested them as disturbers of the peace, and
deposited1 them in Aegina, together with any of the refugees whom they had gained over.
[2]
In the meantime, the Corcyraean oligarchs who were now in power, on the
arrival of a Corinthian trireme and Lacedaemonian envoys, attacked and defeated the
people,
[3]
who at nightfall took refuge in the Acropolis and the higher parts of the city, and
there concentrated their forces.
They also held the Hyllaic harbour; the other party seized the Agora, where most of
them lived, and the adjacent harbour which looked towards the continent.
1 Envoys from Corcyra are arrested at Athens. Defeat of the popular party.
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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