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İngilizce Yunanca

11 Well, he went to Lacedaemon and stayed there a long time, though he had left you here in a state of siege, and knew that your population was in desperate straits, as owing to the war and its distresses the majority must be in want of the necessaries of life. But he thought that, if he should reduce you to the condition to which he in fact reduced you, you would be only too glad to make peace on any sort of terms.

12 The others remained here, with the design of subverting the democracy: they brought Cleophon to trial, on the pretext that he did not go to the camp for his night’s rest, but really because he had spoken on your behalf against the destruction of the walls. So they packed a jury for his trial, and these promoters of oligarchy appeared before the court and had him put to death on that pretext.

13 Theramenes arrived later from Lacedaemon. Then some of the generals and commanders—among them StrombichidesAn Athenian general at the close of the Peloponnesian War; cf. Thuc. 8.15, 30, 62. and Dionysodorus, and some other citizens, who were loyal to you, as indeed they showed later—went to him and protested strongly.