§11.55.1πρῶτον μὲν οὖν αὐτὸν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως μετέστησαν, τοῦτον τὸν ὀνομαζόμενον ὀστρακισμὸν ἐπαγαγόντες αὐτῷ, ὃς ἐνομοθετήθη μὲν ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις μετὰ τὴν κατάλυσιν τῶν τυράννων τῶν περὶ Πεισίστρατον, ὁ δὲ νόμος ἐγένετο τοιοῦτος.
First of all, then, they removed him from the city, bringing against him this so-called ostracism, which had been established by law in Athens after the overthrow of the tyrants around Peisistratus; and the law was as follows.
§11.55.2ἕκαστος τῶν πολιτῶν εἰς ὄστρακον ἔγραφε τοὔνομα τοῦ δοκοῦντος μάλιστα δύνασθαι καταλῦσαι τὴν δημοκρατίαν· ᾧ δʼ ἂν ὄστρακα πλείω γένηται, φεύγειν ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος ἐτέτακτο πενταετῆ χρόνον.
Each of the citizens wrote on a potsherd the name of the man who seemed most able to overthrow the democracy; and the one for whom the potsherds were more numerous was ordered to go into exile from his homeland for a period of five years.
§11.55.3νομοθετῆσαι δὲ ταῦτα δοκοῦσιν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐχ ἵνα τὴν κακίαν κολάζωσιν, ἀλλʼ ἵνα τὰ φρονήματα τῶν ὑπερεχόντων ταπεινότερα γένηται διὰ τὴν φυγήν.
The Athenians seem to have enacted this law, not to punish wickedness, but so that the pride of those who stood preeminent might be made humbler through exile.
ὁ μὲν οὖν Θεμιστοκλῆς τὸν προειρημένον τρόπον ἐξοστρακισθεὶς ἔφυγεν ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος εἰς Ἄργος·
Now Themistocles, having been ostracized in the manner described above, went into exile from his homeland to Argos.
§11.55.4οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι πυθόμενοι περὶ τούτων, καὶ νομίσαντες παρὰ τῆς τύχης εἰληφέναι καιρὸν ἐπιθέσθαι τῷ Θεμιστοκλεῖ, πάλιν εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας ἐξαπέστειλαν πρέσβεις κατηγοροῦντες τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους ὅτι τῷ Παυσανίᾳ κεκοινώνηκε τῆς προδοσίας, καὶ δεῖν ἔφασαν τῶν κοινῶν τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἀδικημάτων εἶναι τὴν κρίσιν οὐκ ἰδίᾳ παρὰ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοῦ κοινοῦ συνεδρίου τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ὅπερ εἰώθει συνεδρεύειν κατʼ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον.
But when the Lacedaemonians learned of these things, and believed they had received from fortune an opportunity to attack Themistocles, they again dispatched ambassadors to Athens accusing Themistocles of having shared in the treason with Pausanias, and they asserted that the trial for crimes common to Greece should not be held privately among the Athenians, but before the common council of the Greeks, which was accustomed to meet at that time.
§11.55.5ὁ δὲ Θεμιστοκλῆς ὁρῶν τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους σπεύδοντας διαβαλεῖν τὴν πόλιν τῶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ ταπεινῶσαι, τοὺς δʼ Ἀθηναίους βουλομένους ἀπολογήσασθαι περὶ τῆς ἐπιφερομένης αἰτίας, ὑπέλαβεν ἑαυτὸν παραδοθήσεσθαι τῷ κοινῷ συνεδρίῳ.
But Themistocles, seeing that the Lacedaemonians were eager to slander and humble the city of Athens, and that the Athenians wished to make an excuse regarding the accusation brought against them, suspected that he would be delivered up to the common council.
§11.55.6τοῦτο δʼ ᾔδει τὰς κρίσεις οὐ δικαίας, ἀλλὰ πρὸς χάριν ποιούμενον τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις, τεκμαιρόμενος ἔκ τε τῶν ἄλλων καὶ ἐξ ὧν ἐποιήσατο περὶ τῶν ἀριστείων·
For he knew that this council made its judgments not justly, but to curry favor with the Lacedaemonians, judging this from other matters and from the decisions it made concerning the prize of valor.
οὕτω γὰρ οἱ κύριοι τῆς ψήφου φθονερῶς διετέθησαν πρὸς τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, ὥστε πλείους τριήρεις αὐτῶν παρεσχημένων ἢ σύμπαντες οἱ ναυμαχήσαντες παρέσχοντο, οὐδὲν κρείττους αὐτοὺς ἐποίησαν τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων.
For those who had authority over the vote were so enviously disposed toward the Athenians that, although they had supplied more triremes than all the others who had fought the sea-battles combined, they made them not a bit better off than the other Greeks.
§11.55.7διὰ ταῦτα δὴ συνέβη τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα τοῖς συνέδροις ἀπιστῆσαι.
For these very reasons, it happened that Themistocles distrusted the councilors.
καὶ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς προγεγενημένης ἀπολογίας ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους ἀφορμὰς εἶχον οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι πρὸς τὴν ὕστερον γενομένην κατηγορίαν.
Indeed, from the defense previously made in Athens by Themistocles, the Lacedaemonians had obtained starting-points for the accusation made later.
§11.55.8ὁ γὰρ Θεμιστοκλῆς ἀπολογούμενος ὡμολόγει μὲν τὸν Παυσανίαν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπιστολὰς ἀπεσταλκέναι παρακαλοῦντα μετασχεῖν τῆς προδοσίας, καὶ τούτῳ μεγίστῳ χρησάμενος τεκμηρίῳ συνίστανεν, ὅτι οὐκ ἂν παρεκάλει Παυσανίας αὐτόν, εἰ μὴ πρὸς τὴν ἀξίωσιν ἀντέλεγε.
For Themistocles, in making his defense, admitted that Pausanias had sent letters to him urging him to share in the treason, and, using this as his greatest proof, he argued that Pausanias would not have urged him unless he had been speaking against the request.