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60.
With these events in their minds, and
recalling everything they knew by hearsay on the subject, the Athenian
people grew difficult of humour and suspicious of the persons charged in the
affair of the mysteries, and persuaded that all that had taken place was
part of an oligarchical and monarchical conspiracy.
[2]
In the state of irritation thus produced, many persons of consideration had
been already thrown into prison, and far from showing any signs of abating,
public feeling grew daily more savage, and more arrests were made; until at last one of those in custody, thought to be the most guilty of
all, was induced by a fellow-prisoner to make a revelation, whether true or
not is a matter on which there are two opinions, no one having been able,
either then or since, to say for certain who did the deed.
[3]
However this may be, the other found arguments to persuade him, that even
if he had not done it, he ought to save himself by gaining a promise of
impunity, and free the state of its present suspicions; as he would be surer of safety if he confessed after promise of impunity
than if he denied and were brought to trial.
[4]
He accordingly made a revelation, affecting himself and others in the
affair of the Hermae; and the Athenian people, glad at last, as they supposed, to get at the
truth, and furious until then at not being able to discover those who had
conspired against the commons, at once let go the informer and all the rest
whom he had not denounced, and bringing the accused to trial executed as
many as were apprehended, and condemned to death such as had fled and set a
price upon their heads.
[5]
In this it was, after all, not clear whether the sufferers had been
punished unjustly, while in any case the rest of the city received immediate
and manifest relief.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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