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36.
Upon the arrival of the prisoners with
Salaethus, the Athenians at once put the latter to death, although he
offered, among other things, to procure the withdrawal of the Peloponnesians
from Plataea, which was still under siege;
[2]
and after deliberating as to what they should do with the former, in the
fury of the moment determined to put to death not only the prisoners at
Athens, but the whole adult male population of Mitylene, and to make slaves
of the women and children.
It was remarked that Mitylene had revolted without being, like the rest,
subjected to the empire; and what above all swelled the wrath of the Athenians was the fact of the
Peloponnesian fleet having ventured over to Ionia to her support, a fact
which was held to argue a long-meditated rebellion.
[3]
They accordingly sent a trireme to communicate the decree to Paches,
commanding him to lose no time in despatching the Mitylenians.
[4]
The morrow brought repentance with it and reflection on the horrid cruelty
of a decree, which condemned a whole city to the fate merited only by the
guilty.
[5]
This was no sooner perceived by the Mitylenian ambassadors at Athens and
their Athenian supporters, than they moved the authorities to put the
question again to the vote; which they the more easily consented to do, as they themselves plainly saw
that most of the citizens wished some one to give them an opportunity for
reconsidering the matter.
[6]
An assembly was therefore at once called, and after much expression of
opinion upon both sides, Cleon, son of Cleaenetus, the same who had carried
the former motion of putting the Mitylenians to death, the most violent man
at Athens, and at that time by far the most powerful with the commons, came
forward again and spoke as follows:—
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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