[5] Also it was after this that the organized bribery of juries began, Anytus having first shown the way to it after his command at Pylos1; for when he was brought to trial by certain persons for having lost Pylos he bribed the court and got off.
1 Pylos (Navarino) on the W. coast of Peloponnesus, had been taken by Athens 425 B.C, but was retaken by Sparta 409 B.C. Anytus (see also Aristot. Ath. Pol. 34.3, one of the prosecutors of Socrates) was sent with 30 triremes to its relief, but owing to weather never got round Cape Malea.