§17.1ἐπεὶ δὲ βοηθήσας τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀπῄει διὰ Κορίνθου τὴν στρατιὰν ἄγων, ἐνεκάλει Λάχαρτος αὐτῷ πρὶν ἐντυχεῖν τοῖς πολίταις εἰσαγαγόντι τὸ στράτευμα· καὶ γὰρ θύραν κόψαντας ἀλλοτρίαν οὐκ εἰσιέναι πρότερον ἢ τὸν κύριον κελεῦσαι.
But when, after aiding the Lacedaemonians, he was returning and leading his army through Corinth, Lachartus upbraided him for having brought in his army before conferring with the citizens; for, he said, one who knocks at another's door does not enter before the master bids him.
καὶ ὁ Κίμων
ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὑμεῖς,
εἶπεν,
ὦ Λάχαρτε, τὰς Κλεωναίων καὶ Μεγαρέων πύλας κόψαντες, ἀλλὰ κατασχίσαντες εἰσεβιάσασθε μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἀξιοῦντες ἀνεῳγέναι πάντα τοῖς μεῖζον δυναμένοις. οὕτω μὲν ἐθρασύνατο πρὸς τὸν Κορίνθιον ἐν δέοντι, καὶ μετὰ τῆς στρατιᾶς διεξῆλθεν.
And Cimon said: "But you, Lachartus, did not knock at the gates of the Cleonaeans and Megarians, but having shattered them, forced your way in with arms, demanding that everything should be open to those who have greater power." Thus he spoke boldly to the Corinthian in a timely moment, and passed through with his army.
§17.2οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους αὖθις ἐκάλουν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐν Ἰθώμῃ Μεσσηνίους καὶ εἵλωτας, ἐλθόντων δὲ τὴν τόλμαν καὶ τὴν λαμπρότητα δείσαντες ἀπεπέμψαντο μόνους τῶν συμμάχων ὡς νεωτεριστάς.
And the Lacedaemonians again called upon the Athenians against the Messenians and helots at Ithome; but when they arrived, fearing their boldness and brilliance, they sent them back alone of all the allies as revolutionists.
οἱ δὲ πρὸς ὀργὴν ἀπελθόντες ἤδη τοῖς λακωνίζουσι φανερῶς ἐχαλέπαινον, καὶ τὸν Κίμωνα μικρᾶς ἐπιλαβόμενοι προφάσεως ἐξωστράκισαν εἰς ἔτη δέκα· τοσοῦτον γὰρ ἦν χρόνου τεταγμένον ἅπασι τοῖς ἐξοστρακιζομένοις.
The Athenians, departing in anger, at once openly showed resentment against those who favored the Spartans, and taking advantage of a slight pretext, they ostracized Cimon for ten years; for that was the period prescribed for all who were ostracized.
§17.3ἐν δὲ τούτῳ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων, ὡς ἐπανήρχοντο Δελφοὺς ἀπὸ Φωκέων ἐλευθερώσαντες, ἐν Τανάγρᾳ καταστρατοπεδευσάντων Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν ἀπήντων διαμαχούμενοι, Κίμων δὲ μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἧκεν εἰς τὴν αὑτοῦ φυλὴν τὴν Οἰνηΐδα, πρόθυμος ὢν ἀμύνεσθαι τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους μετὰ τῶν πολιτῶν.
Meanwhile, when the Lacedaemonians, returning after freeing Delphi from the Phocians, encamped at Tanagra, the Athenians went out to meet them in battle; and Cimon came with his arms to his own tribe, the Oeneis, eager to repel the Lacedaemonians along with his fellow citizens.
§17.4ἡ δὲ βουλὴ τῶν πεντακοσίων πυθομένη καὶ φοβηθεῖσα, τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτοῦ καταβοώντων ὡς συνταράξαι τὴν φάλαγγα βουλομένου καὶ τῇ πόλει Λακεδαιμονίους ἐπαγαγεῖν, ἀπηγόρευσε τοῖς στρατηγοῖς μὴ δέχεσθαι τὸν ἄνδρα.
But the Council of Five Hundred, having heard of this and being afraid—since Cimon's enemies raised a clamor against him, alleging that he wished to throw the phalanx into confusion and bring the Lacedaemonians into the city—forbade the generals to receive the man.
κἀκεῖνος μὲν ᾤχετο δεηθεὶς Εὐθίππου τοῦ Ἀναφλυστίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἑταίρων, ὅσοι μάλιστα τὴν τοῦ λακωνίζειν αἰτίαν ἔσχον, ἐρρωμένως ἀγωνίσασθαι πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους καὶ διʼ ἔργων ἀπολύσασθαι τὴν αἰτίαν πρὸς τοὺς πολίτας.
He therefore departed, after having besought Euthippus of Anaphlystus and those of his companions who were especially accused of favoring the Spartans, to fight vigorously against the enemy, and by their deeds to clear themselves of the charge in the eyes of their fellow citizens.
§17.5οἱ δὲ λαβόντες αὐτοῦ τὴν πανοπλίαν εἰς τὸν λόχον ἔθεντο· καὶ μετʼ ἀλλήλων συστάντες ἐκθύμως ἑκατὸν ὄντες ἔπεσον, πολὺν αὑτῶν πόθον καὶ μεταμέλειαν ἐφʼ οἷς ᾐτιάθησαν ἀδίκως ἀπολιπόντες τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις.
These men, taking his panoply, placed it in their company; and standing close to one another, they fought eagerly and fell, a hundred in number, leaving to the Athenians a great longing for them and repentance for the unjust accusations they had faced.
ὅθεν οὐδὲ τῷ πρὸς Κίμωνα θυμῷ πολὺν χρόνον ἐνέμειναν, τὰ μέν, ὡς εἰκός, ὧν ἔπαθον εὖ μεμνημένοι, τὰ δὲ τοῦ καιροῦ συλλαμβανομένου.
Consequently, the Athenians did not remain long in their anger against Cimon, partly, as was natural, because they well remembered the benefits they had received, and partly because the crisis supported this change of heart.
§17.6νενικημένοι γὰρ ἐν Τανάγρᾳ μάχῃ μεγάλῃ καὶ προσδοκῶντες εἰς ὥραν ἔτους στρατιὰν Πελοποννησίων ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἐκάλουν ἐκ τῆς φυγῆς τὸν Κίμωνα· καὶ κατῆλθε τὸ ψήφισμα γράψαντος αὐτῷ Περικλέους.
For having been defeated in a great battle at Tanagra, and expecting that in the spring of the year a Peloponnesian army would march against them, they recalled Cimon from exile; and the decree for his return was passed, Pericles himself having drafted it.
οὕτω τότε πολιτικαὶ μὲν ἦσαν αἱ διαφοραί, μέτριοι δʼ οἱ θυμοὶ καὶ πρὸς τὸ κοινὸν εὐανάκλητοι συμφέρον, ἡ δὲ φιλοτιμία πάντων ἐπικρατοῦσα τῶν παθῶν τοῖς τῆς πατρίδος ὑπεχώρει καιροῖς.
So political indeed were their differences in those days, moderate their resentments and easily recalled to the public good, while their ambition, which ruled over all other passions, yielded to the crises of their country.