§8.64.1παρακελευσάμενοι οὖν τοιαῦτα τὸν μὲν Πείσανδρον εὐθὺς τότε καὶ τῶν πρέσβεων τοὺς ἡμίσεις ἀπέστελλον ἐπ’ οἴκου πράξοντας τἀκεῖ, καὶ εἴρητο αὐτοῖς τῶν ὑπηκόων πόλεων αἷς ἂν προσσχῶσιν ὀλιγαρχίαν καθιστάναι· τοὺς δ’ ἡμίσεις ἐς τἆλλα τὰ ὑπήκοα χωρία ἄλλους ἄλλῃ διέπεμπον, §8.64.2καὶ Διειτρέφη ὄντα περὶ Χίον, ᾑρημένον δὲ ἐς τὰ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης ἄρχειν, ἀπέστελλον ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχήν.
Having thus encouraged one another, they immediately sent Pisander and half of the envoys back home to manage affairs there, and instructions were given to them to establish oligarchies in whatever subject cities they might touch at on their voyage; the other half they dispatched to different places among the other subject territories. They also sent Dieitrephes, who was in the neighborhood of Chios and had been chosen to hold command in the Thracian region, to his post.
καὶ ἀφικόμενος ἐς τὴν Θάσον τὸν δῆμον κατέλυσεν. §8.64.3καὶ ἀπελθόντος αὐτοῦ οἱ Θάσιοι δευτέρῳ μηνὶ μάλιστα τὴν πόλιν ἐτείχιζον, ὡς τῆς μὲν μετ’ Ἀθηναίων ἀριστοκρατίας οὐδὲν ἔτι προσδεόμενοι, τὴν δ’ ἀπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐλευθερίαν ὁσημέραι προσδεχόμενοι· §8.64.4καὶ γὰρ καὶ φυγὴ αὐτῶν ἔξω ἦν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων παρὰ τοῖς Πελοποννησίοις, καὶ αὕτη μετὰ τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐπιτηδείων κατὰ κράτος ἔπρασσε ναῦς τε κομίσαι καὶ τὴν Θάσον ἀποστῆσαι.
On arriving at Thasos, he overthrew the democracy. After his departure, the Thasians, in about the second month, began to fortify their city, feeling that they no longer needed the aristocracy offered by the Athenians, but were daily expecting freedom from Lacedaemon. For indeed their exiles, who had been expelled by the Athenians, were with the Peloponnesians, and these, in concert with their friends in the city, were working with all their might to bring a fleet and make Thasos revolt.
ξυνέβη οὖν αὐτοῖς μάλιστα ἃ ἐβούλοντο, τὴν πόλιν τε ἀκινδύνως ὀρθοῦσθαι καὶ τὸν ἐναντιωσόμενον δῆμον καταλελύσθαι. §8.64.5περὶ μὲν οὖν τὴν Θάσον τἀναντία τοῖς τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν καθιστᾶσι τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐγένετο, δοκεῖν δέ μοι καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις πολλοῖς τῶν ὑπηκόων· σωφροσύνην γὰρ λαβοῦσαι αἱ πόλεις καὶ ἄδειαν τῶν πρασσομένων ἐχώρησαν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄντικρυς ἐλευθερίαν τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ὑπούλου εὐνομίας οὐ προτιμήσαντες.
It therefore turned out for them exactly as they wished—their city was set on a secure footing without danger, and the opposing democracy was overthrown. Thus, in the case of Thasos, the result was the very opposite of what the Athenians who were establishing the oligarchy had intended, and, as it seems to me, the same was true in many other of the subject states; for the cities, having obtained moderate government and security in their actions, proceeded to downright freedom, not preferring the hollow "good order" offered by the Athenians.