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73.
Indeed at Samos the question of the oligarchy
had already entered upon a new phase, the following events having taken
place just at the time that the Four Hundred were conspiring.
[2]
That part of the Samian population which has been mentioned as rising
against the upper class, and as being the democratic party, had now turned
round, and yielding to the solicitations of Pisander during his visit, and
of the Athenians in the conspiracy at Samos, had bound themselves by oaths
to the number of three hundred, and were about to fall upon the rest of
their fellow-citizens, whom they now in their turn regarded as the
democratic party.
[3]
Meanwhile they put to death one Hyperbolus, an Athenian, a pestilent fellow
that had been ostracised, not from fear of his influence on position, but
because he was a rascal and a disgrace to the city; being aided in this by Charminus, one of the generals, and by some of the
Athenians with them, to whom they had sworn friendship, and with whom they
perpetrated other acts of the kind, and now determined to attack the people.
[4]
The latter got wind of what was coming, and told two of the generals, Leon
and Diomedon, who, on account of the credit which they enjoyed with the
commons, were unwilling supporters of the oligarchy; and also Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus, the former a captain of a galley, the
latter serving with the heavy infantry, besides certain others who had ever
been thought most opposed to the conspirators, entreating them not to look
on and see them destroyed, and Samos, the sole remaining stay of their
empire, lost to the Athenians.
[5]
Upon hearing this, the persons whom they addressed now went round the
soldiers one by one, and urged them to resist, especially the crew of the
Paralus, which was made up entirely of Athenians and freemen, and had from
time out of mind been enemies of oligarchy, even when there was no such
thing existing; and Leon and Diomedon left behind some ships for their protection in case
of their sailing away anywhere themselves.
[6]
Accordingly, when the Three Hundred attacked the people, all these came to
the rescue, and foremost of all the crew of the Paralus; and the Samian commons gained the victory, and putting to death some thirty
of the Three Hundred, banishing three others of the ringleaders, accorded an
amnesty to the rest, and lived together under a democratic government for
the future.
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- LSJ, δῆμος
- LSJ, ἀλλοτριόω
- LSJ, μέτειμι
- LSJ, μνησι^κα^κ-έω
- LSJ, μοχθ-ηρός
- LSJ, νεωτερ-ίζω
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- LSJ, πλείων
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