10.1
When he reached the door of the house, Archias came out to him, with Phillidas, and said: Charon, I have heard that certain men have come and hid themselves in the city, and that some of the citizens are in collusion with them. Charon was disturbed at first, but on asking who the men were that had come and who were concealing them, he saw that Archias could give no clear account of the matter, and conjectured that his information had not come from any of those who were privy to the plot. He therefore said: Do not, then, suffer any empty rumour to disturb you. However, I will look into the matter; for perhaps no story should be ignored.
10.2
Phillidas, too, who stood by, approved of this, and after leading Archias back, got him to drink hard, and tried to protract the revel with hopes of a visit from the women. But Charon, when he got back home, and found the men there disposed, not to expect safety or victory at all, but to die gloriously after a great slaughter of their enemies, told the truth only to Pelopidas himself, while for the rest he concocted a false tale that Archias had talked with him about other matters.According to Plutarch’s lengthy version of this affair in his Discourse concerning the Daemon of Socrates (chapter 29, Morals, p. 595 f.), Charon hid the truth from no one.
