§3.70.1οἱ γὰρ Κερκυραῖοι ἐστασίαζον, ἐπειδὴ οἱ αἰχμάλωτοι ἦλθον αὐτοῖς οἱ ἐκ τῶν περὶ Ἐπίδαμνον ναυμαχιῶν ὑπὸ Κορινθίων ἀφεθέντες, τῷ μὲν λόγῳ ὀκτακοσίων ταλάντων τοῖς προξένοις διηγγυημένοι, ἔργῳ δὲ πεπεισμένοι Κορινθίοις Κέρκυραν προσποιῆσαι.
For the Corcyraeans fell into revolution when the prisoners returned to them who had been taken in the sea-fights off Epidamnus and released by the Corinthians—ostensibly ransomed for eight hundred talents by their hosts (proxenoi), but in fact having been persuaded to win Corcyra over to the Corinthians.
καὶ ἔπρασσον οὗτοι, ἕκαστον τῶν πολιτῶν μετιόντες, ὅπως ἀποστήσωσιν Ἀθηναίων τὴν πόλιν.
And these men began to act, visiting each of the citizens, in order to revolt the city from the Athenians.
§3.70.2καὶ ἀφικομένης Ἀττικῆς τε νεὼς καὶ Κορινθίας πρέσβεις ἀγουσῶν καὶ ἐς λόγους καταστάντων ἐψηφίσαντο Κερκυραῖοι Ἀθηναίοις μὲν ξύμμαχοι εἶναι κατὰ τὰ ξυγκείμενα, Πελοποννησίοις δὲ φίλοι ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερον.
And when an Attic ship and a Corinthian ship arrived, bringing ambassadors, and they entered into negotiations, the Corcyraeans voted to be allies of the Athenians according to the existing agreement, but to be friends with the Peloponnesians as previously.
§3.70.3καὶ (ἦν γὰρ Πειθίας ἐθελοπρόξενός τε τῶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ τοῦ δήμου προειστήκει) ὑπάγουσιν αὐτὸν οὗτοι οἱ ἄνδρες ἐς δίκην, λέγοντες Ἀθηναίοις τὴν Κέρκυραν καταδουλοῦν.
And (for Peithias was a voluntary host of the Athenians and stood at the head of the popular party) these men brought him to trial, alleging that he was enslaving Corcyra to the Athenians.
§3.70.4ὁ δὲ ἀποφυγὼν ἀνθυπάγει αὐτῶν τοὺς πλουσιωτάτους πέντε ἄνδρας, φάσκων τέμνειν χάρακας ἐκ τοῦ τε Διὸς τοῦ τεμένους καὶ τοῦ Ἀλκίνου· ζημία δὲ καθ’ ἑκάστην χάρακα ἐπέκειτο στατήρ.
But he, having been acquitted, countersued the five wealthiest of them, claiming that they were cutting vine-props from the sacred precinct of both Zeus and Alcinous; and a fine of a stater was imposed for each vine-prop.
§3.70.5ὀφλόντων δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἱερὰ ἱκετῶν καθεζομένων διὰ πλῆθος τῆς ζημίας, ὅπως ταξάμενοι ἀποδῶσιν, ὁ Πειθίας (ἐτύγχανε γὰρ καὶ βουλῆς ὤν) πείθει ὥστε τῷ νόμῳ χρήσασθαι.
When they had been convicted and, because of the large amount of the fine, sat as suppliants at the temples in order to arrange to pay by installments, Peithias (who happened also to be a member of the council) persuaded the council to enforce the law.
§3.70.6οἱ δ’ ἐπειδὴ τῷ τε νόμῳ ἐξείργοντο καὶ ἅμα ἐπυνθάνοντο τὸν Πειθίαν, ἕως ἔτι βουλῆς ἐστί, μέλλειν τὸ πλῆθος ἀναπείσειν τοὺς αὐτοὺς Ἀθηναίοις φίλους τε καὶ ἐχθροὺς νομίζειν, ξυνίσταντό τε καὶ λαβόντες ἐγχειρίδια ἐξαπιναίως ἐς τὴν βουλὴν ἐσελθόντες τόν τε Πειθίαν κτείνουσι καὶ ἄλλους τῶν τε βουλευτῶν καὶ ἰδιωτῶν ἐς ἑξήκοντα· οἱ δέ τινες τῆς αὐτῆς γνώμης τῷ Πειθίᾳ ὀλίγοι ἐς τὴν Ἀττικὴν τριήρη κατέφυγον ἔτι παροῦσαν.
But when they were excluded by the law and at the same time heard that Peithias, as long as he was still in the council, was going to persuade the multitude to regard the same people as friends and enemies as the Athenians did, they formed a conspiracy, and taking daggers, they suddenly entered the council chamber and killed Peithias and about sixty others of the councilors and private citizens; but a few who held the same opinion as Peithias fled to the Attic trireme which was still present.