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50.
Phrynichus now saw that there would be a
proposal to restore Alcibiades, and that the Athenians would consent to it; and fearing after what he had said against it that Alcibiades, if restored,
would revenge himself upon him for his opposition, had recourse to the
following expedient.
He sent a secret letter to the Lacedaemonian admiral,
[2]
Astyochus, who was still in the neighbourhood of Miletus, to tell him that
Alcibiades was ruining their cause by making Tissaphernes the friend of the
Athenians, and containing an express revelation of the rest of the intrigue,
desiring to be excused if he sought to harm his enemy even at the expense of
the interests of his country.
[3]
However, Astyochus, instead of thinking of punishing Alcibiades, who,
besides, no longer ventured within his reach as formerly, went up to him and
Tissaphernes at Magnesia, communicated to them the letter from Samos, and
turned informer, and if report may be trusted, became the paid creature of
Tissaphernes, undertaking to inform him as to this and all other matters; which was also the reason why he did not remonstrate more strongly against
the pay not being given in full.
[4]
Upon this Alcibiades instantly sent to the authorities at Samos a letter
against Phrynichus, stating what he had done, and requiring that he should
be put to death.
[5]
Phrynichus distracted, and placed in the utmost peril by the denunciation,
sent again to Astyochus, reproaching him with having so ill kept the secret
of his previous letter, and saying that he was now prepared to give them an
opportunity of destroying the whole Athenian armament at Samos; giving a detailed account of the means which he should employ, Samos being
unfortified, and pleading that being in danger of his life on their account,
he could not now be blamed for doing this or anything else to escape being
destroyed by his mortal enemies.
This also Astyochus revealed to Alcibiades.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXIV
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.41
- Cross-references to this page
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE ARTICLE—ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.2
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter II
- Smith's Bio, Phry'nichus
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 8.68
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- LSJ, ἀνθάπτομαι
- LSJ, ἐναντι?́-ωσις
- LSJ, ἐνδέχομαι
- LSJ, μα^λα^κός
- LSJ, παρέχω
- LSJ, πέμπω
- LSJ, θορυ^β-έω
- LSJ, συγγνώμη
- LSJ, ψυ_χ-ή
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