Thrasybulus

but before he arrived, the Athenians had chosen as generals Alcibiades, who was still in exile, Thrasybulus, who was absent, and as a third, from among those at home, Conon.

Thrasybulus, however, with thirty ships, went off to the Thracian coast, where he reduced all the places which had revolted to the Lacedaemonians, and especially Thasos, which was in a bad state on account of wars and revolutions and famine.

Meantime Alcibiades, hearing that Thrasybulus had come out from the Hellespont and was investing Phocaea, sailed across to see him, leaving in command of the fleet Antiochus, the pilot of his own ship, with orders not to attack Lysander’s ships.

Thrasybulus did this so that when the herald from

That is the story of Alyattes ' war against Thrasybulus and the Milesians.

Sardis saw a great heap of food piled up, and the citizens celebrating, he would bring word of it to Alyattes:

Now the leading men at Samos, and especially Thrasybulus, had all along retained the same purpose, ever since he had effected a change in the government, namely, to restore Alcibiades;

And the soldiers immediately held an assembly, in which they deposed their former generals, and any of the trierarchs whom they suspected, and chose others in their place, both trierarchs and generals;

An assembly therefore having been convened, Alcibiades both complained of and deplored his own calamity in having been banished, and by speaking at great length on public matters raised them to no slight hopes for the future;

Archinus of Coele brought an indictment for an illegal motion against Thrasybulus of Steiria, one of his own companions in the return from Phyle;

But when again a moderate government had been established, and the exiled democracy had come back from Phyle, with Archinus and Thrasybulus as the leaders of the popular party, we took the solemn oath with one another to forgive and forget an act which, in the judgment of all men, won for our state the reputation of the highest wisdom.

Winter being now upon them, when Thrasybulus with the exiles had seized Phyle, and the expedition which the Thirty led out had returned badly, they resolved to strip the rest of their arms and to destroy Theramenes in the following way.

And Archinus seems to have acted well as a statesman both in this, and afterward in indicting the decree of Thrasybulus for illegality, in which he gave a share in the constitution to all who had come down together from the Piraeus, some of whom were plainly slaves;

But for Thrasybulus too, when he was bringing back those who had been driven out from Phyle and wished to escape notice, a pillar became a guide, as he went through untrodden places.

To Amytheon’s sister, who married Diodorus of Halae, was born a son Ctesibius, and he was killed in Abydus while serving in the campaign with Thrasybulus.

Some time after this, when by now two children had been born to her, she was compelled at a time when my father was absent on military service with Thrasybulus and she herself was in hard straits, to take Cleinias, the son of Cleidicus, to nurse.

In the second place, will you not wrong Archebius and Heraclides, who by putting Byzantium into the hands of Thrasybulus made you masters of the Hellespont, so that you farmed out the toll of ten per cent, and thus being well furnished with money forced the Lacedaemonians to conclude a peace favorable to you?

In the first place, then, will you not wrong the Thasian supporters of Ecphantus, if you revoke their immunity—I mean the men who handed over Thasos to you by expelling the armed garrison of the Lacedaemonians and admitting Thrasybulus, and thus, by bringing their own country on to your side, were the means of winning for you the alliance of the district bordering on Thrace?

But after the archonship of Eucleides, gentlemen of the jury, first, you all remember that the well-known Thrasybulus of Colyttus was twice imprisoned and condemned at both his trials before the Assembly;

Of the children of others, however, whom you recompensed for their fathers’ good services I would gladly see you reminded;

that more recently Thrasybulus, a son of Thrasybulus the great democrat, who restored free government from Phyle, should have paid a fine of ten talents that even a descendant of Harmodius and of the greatest of all your benefactors, the men to whom, in requital of their glorious deeds, you have allotted by statute a share of your libations and drink-offerings in every temple and at every public s …

That is why Thrasybulus was not deprived of his share of the fortune of Apollodorus (II.

), having died without issue, Thrasybulus has received half his estate, which may fairly be estimated at five talents.

and by this right of kinship he might have claimed the estate now in dispute, since he has a claim prior to that of this woman, if he thought that the act of adoption was not valid;

Furthermore, he is certainly not unaware of this either—that Thrasybulus and Anytus, men of the greatest influence in the city, although they have been robbed of large sums of money and know who gave in lists of their goods, nevertheless are not so brazen as to bring suit against them or to bring up old grudges against them;

Truly, Thrasybulus, the homes of your family are not unfamiliar with lovely victory-processions, nor with the sweet boasting of songs.

The men of old, Thrasybulus, who mounted the chariot of the Muses with their golden headbands, joining the glorious lyre, lightly shot forth their honey-voiced songs for young men, if one was handsome and had the sweetest ripeness that brings to mind Aphrodite on her lovely throne.

His sweet temperament, when he associates with his drinking companions, surpasses even the bee’s intricate honeycomb.

Of men alive today, Thrasybulus more than anyone has approached his father’ s standard, and he rivals his father’s brother in every splendor.

Its facade, shining in pure light, will announce your chariot victory to the speech of men and make it famous—the victory you share with your father and your race, Thrasybulus, won in the vales of Crisa.