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68.
The man who moved this resolution was
Pisander, who was throughout the chief ostensible agent in putting down the
democracy.
But he who concerted the whole affair, and prepared the way for the
catastrophe, and who had given the greatest thought to the matter, was
Antiphon, one of the best men of his day in Athens; who, with a head to contrive measures and a tongue to recommend them, did
not willingly come forward in the assembly or upon any public scene, being
ill-looked upon by the multitude owing to his reputation for talent; and who yet was the one man best able to aid in the courts, or before the
assembly, the suitors who required his opinion.
[2]
Indeed, when he was afterwards himself tried for his life on the charge of
having been concerned in setting up this very government, when the Four
Hundred were overthrown and hardly dealt with by the commons, he made what
would seem to be the best defence of any known up to my time.
[3]
Phrynichus also went beyond all others in his zeal for the oligarchy.
Afraid of Alcibiades, and assured that he was no stranger to his intrigues
with Astyochus at Samos, he held that no oligarchy was ever likely to
restore him, and once embarked in the enterprise, proved, where danger was
to be faced, by far the staunchest of them all.
[4]
Theramenes, son of Hagnon, was also one of the foremost of the subverters
of the democracy—a man as able in council as in debate.
Conducted by so many and by such sagacious heads, the enterprise, great as
it was, not unnaturally went forward; although it was no light matter to deprive the Athenian people of its
freedom, almost a hundred years after the deposition of the tyrants, when it
had been not only not subject to any during the whole of that period, but
accustomed during more than half of it to rule over subjects of its own.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE PARTICIPLE
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- Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Aristot. Eud. Eth. 3.1232b
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Antiphon: Life
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- LSJ, αἰτι-άομαι
- LSJ, διάκειμαι
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- LSJ, ἔστω
- LSJ, ἐνθυ_μ-έομαι
- LSJ, ἐπεί
- LSJ, ἐπιμελ-έομαι
- LSJ, φερέγγυ^ος
- LSJ, γνώμ-η
- LSJ, κατέρχομαι
- LSJ, μάλα
- LSJ, μεταπίπτω
- LSJ, πρόθυ_μος
- LSJ, προχωρ-έω
- LSJ, συγκαθ-ίστημι
- LSJ, συγκατα-λύω
- LSJ, συμβουλ-εύω
- LSJ, συντίθημι
- LSJ, τε
- LSJ, ὕπ-οπτος
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