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61.
To return to Alcibiades: public feeling was
very hostile to him, being worked on by the same enemies who had attacked
him before he went out; and now that the Athenians fancied that they had got at the truth of the
matter of the Hermae, they believed more firmly than ever that the affair of
the mysteries also, in which he was implicated, had been contrived by him in
the same intention and was connected with the plot against the democracy.
[2]
Meanwhile it so happened that, just at the time of this agitation, a small
force of Lacedaemonians had advanced as far as the Isthmus, in pursuance of
some scheme with the Boeotians.
It was now thought that this had come by appointment, at his instigation,
and not on account of the Boeotians, and that if the citizens had not acted
on the information received, and forestalled them by arresting the
prisoners, the city would have been betrayed.
The citizens went so far as to sleep one night armed in the temple of
Theseus within the walls.
[3]
The friends also of Alcibiades at Argos were just at this time suspected of
a design to attack the commons; and the Argive hostages deposited in the islands were given up by the
Athenians to the Argive people to be put to death upon that account:
[4]
in short, everywhere something was found to create suspicion against
Alcibiades.
It was therefore decided to bring him to trial and execute him, and the
Salaminia was sent to Sicily for him and the others named in the
information, with instructions to order him to come and answer the charges
against him,
[5]
but not to arrest him, because they wished to avoid causing any agitation
in the army or among the enemy in Sicily, and above all to retain the
services of the Mantineans and Argives, who, it was thought, had been
induced to join by his influence.
[6]
Alcibiades, with his own ship and his fellow-accused, accordingly sailed
off with the Salaminia from Sicily, as though to return to Athens, and went
with her as far as Thurii, and there they left the ship and disappeared,
being afraid to go home for trial with such a prejudice existing against
them.
[7]
The crew of the Salaminia stayed some time looking for Alcibiades and his
companions, and at length, as they were nowhere to be found, set sail and
departed.
Alcibiades, now an outlaw, crossed in a boat not long after from Thurii to
Peloponnese; and the Athenians passed sentence of death by default upon him and those in
his company.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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