§8.73.1ἐν γὰρ τῇ Σάμῳ ἐνεωτερίζετο ἤδη τὰ περὶ τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν, καὶ ξυνέβη τοιάδε γενέσθαι ὑπ’ αὐτὸν τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον ὅνπερ οἱ τετρακόσιοι ξυνίσταντο.
For in Samos the state of affairs concerning the oligarchy was already undergoing a revolution, and it happened that the following events took place about the very time when the Four Hundred were being established.
§8.73.2οἱ γὰρ τότε τῶν Σαμίων ἐπαναστάντες τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ὄντες δῆμος μεταβαλλόμενοι αὖθις καὶ πεισθέντες ὑπό τε τοῦ Πεισάνδρου, ὅτε ἦλθε, καὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ Σάμῳ ξυνεστώτων Ἀθηναίων ἐγένοντό τε ἐς τριακοσίους ξυνωμόται καὶ ἔμελλον τοῖς ἄλλοις ὡς δήμῳ ὄντι ἐπιθήσεσθαι.
Indeed, those of the Samians who had formerly risen against the aristocrats and constituted the democracy, changing their minds again and being persuaded by Peisander when he came, and by the Athenians who had conspired in Samos, formed a conspiracy of three hundred and were about to attack the others as being the democracy.
§8.73.3καὶ Ὑπέρβολόν τέ τινα τῶν Ἀθηναίων, μοχθηρὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὠστρακισμένον οὐ διὰ δυνάμεως καὶ ἀξιώματος φόβον, ἀλλὰ διὰ πονηρίαν καὶ αἰσχύνην τῆς πόλεως, ἀποκτείνουσι μετὰ Χαρμίνου τε ἑνὸς τῶν στρατηγῶν καί τινων τῶν παρὰ σφίσιν Ἀθηναίων, πίστιν διδόντες αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἄλλα μετ’ αὐτῶν τοιαῦτα ξυνέπραξαν, τοῖς τε πλέοσιν ὥρμηντο ἐπιτίθεσθαι.
And they killed a certain Hyperbolos, an Athenian, a worthless fellow who had been ostracized not from fear of his power and prestige, but because of his wickedness and as a disgrace to the city, cooperating with Charminus, one of the generals, and certain of the Athenians among them, to whom they gave pledges of faith; and they joined with them in other such acts, and were eager to attack the majority.
§8.73.4οἱ δὲ αἰσθόμενοι τῶν τε στρατηγῶν Λέοντι καὶ Διομέδοντι (οὗτοι γὰρ οὐχ ἑκόντες διὰ τὸ τιμᾶσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου ἔφερον τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν) τὸ μέλλον σημαίνουσι καὶ Θρασυβούλῳ καὶ Θρασύλῳ, τῷ μὲν τριηραρχοῦντι, τῷ δὲ ὁπλιτεύοντι, καὶ ἄλλοις οἳ ἐδόκουν αἰεὶ μάλιστα ἐναντιοῦσθαι τοῖς ξυνεστῶσιν· καὶ οὐκ ἠξίουν περιιδεῖν αὐτοὺς σφᾶς τε διαφθαρέντας καὶ Σάμον Ἀθηναίοις ἀλλοτριωθεῖσαν, δι’ ἣν μόνον [μέχρι νῦν] ἡ ἀρχὴ αὐτοῖς ἐς τοῦτο ξυνέμεινεν.
But those who perceived this disclosed what was about to happen to Leon and Diomedon, two of the generals (for these, because they were honored by the people, submitted to the oligarchy unwillingly), and to Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus, the former being a trierarch and the latter serving as a hoplite, and to others who were thought to be always most opposed to the conspirators; and they entreated them not to look on and permit themselves to be destroyed and Samos to be alienated from the Athenians, through which alone their empire had held together up to this point.
§8.73.5οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες τῶν τε στρατιωτῶν ἕνα ἕκαστον μετῇσαν μὴ ἐπιτρέπειν, καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα τοὺς Παράλους, ἄνδρας Ἀθηναίους τε καὶ ἐλευθέρους πάντας ἐν τῇ νηὶ πλέοντας καὶ αἰεὶ δήποτε ὀλιγαρχίᾳ καὶ μὴ παρούσῃ ἐπικειμένους· ὅ τε Λέων καὶ ὁ Διομέδων αὐτοῖς ναῦς τινάς, ὁπότε ποι πλέοιεν, κατέλειπον φύλακας.
And they, having heard this, went to each one of the soldiers, urging them not to allow it, and especially to the crew of the Paralus, who were all Athenian and free men sailing in that ship, and had always, even before it existed, been hostile to oligarchy; and Leon and Diomedon left some ships as guards for them whenever they sailed anywhere.
§8.73.6ὥστε ἐπειδὴ αὐτοῖς ἐπετίθεντο οἱ τριακόσιοι, βοηθησάντων πάντων τούτων, μάλιστα δὲ τῶν Παράλων, περιεγένοντο οἱ τῶν Σαμίων πλέονες, καὶ τριάκοντα μέν τινας ἀπέκτειναν τῶν τριακοσίων, τρεῖς δὲ τοὺς αἰτιωτάτους φυγῇ ἐζημίωσαν· τοῖς δ’ ἄλλοις οὐ μνησικακοῦντες δημοκρατούμενοι τὸ λοιπὸν ξυνεπολίτευον.
So when the Three Hundred attacked them, all these assisting, and especially the crew of the Paralus, the majority of the Samians prevailed, and they killed about thirty of the Three Hundred, and punished three of the most guilty with banishment; as for the rest, they harbored no malice, but lived together as citizens under a democracy for the future.