§13.34.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος δʼ Ἀθήνησι Καλλίου Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν ἀντὶ τῶν ὑπάτων χιλιάρχους κατέστησαν τέτταρας, Πόπλιον Κορνήλιον Γάιον Φάβιον, Ὀλυμπιὰς δʼ ἤχθη παρʼ Ἠλείοις δευτέρα πρὸς ταῖς ἐνενήκοντα, καθʼ ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Ἐξαίνετος Ἀκραγαντῖνος.
When Callias was archon in Athens, the Romans established four military tribunes instead of consuls, namely Poplius Cornelius and Gaius Fabius; and the ninety-second Olympiad was celebrated by the Eleians, in which Exaenetus of Acragas won the stadion.
ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων Ἀθηναίων περὶ Σικελίαν ἐπταικότων συνέβη τὴν ἡγεμονίαν αὐτῶν καταφρονηθῆναι·
At this time, since the Athenians had met with disaster around Sicily, it happened that their supremacy was held in contempt.
§13.34.2εὐθὺς γὰρ Χῖοι καὶ Σάμιοι καὶ Βυζάντιοι καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν συμμάχων ἀπέστησαν πρὸς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους.
For immediately the Chians, Samians, Byzantines, and many of the allies revolted to the Lacedaemonians.
διόπερ ὁ δῆμος ἀθυμήσας ἐξεχώρησεν ἑκουσίως τῆς δημοκρατίας, ἑλόμενος δὲ ἄνδρας τετρακοσίους, τούτοις τὴν διοίκησιν ἐπέτρεψε τῶν κοινῶν.
Therefore, the people, being disheartened, voluntarily withdrew from the democracy, and having chosen four hundred men, they entrusted to them the administration of public affairs.
οἱ δὲ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας προεστῶτες ναυπηγησάμενοι πλείους τριήρεις ἀπέστειλαν τεσσαράκοντα καὶ στρατηγούς.
And those who stood at the head of the oligarchy, having built more triremes, dispatched forty vessels and generals.
§13.34.3οὗτοι δὲ στασιάζοντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους εἰς Ὠρωπὸν ἐξέπλευσαν· ἐκεῖ γὰρ ὥρμουν αἱ τῶν πολεμίων τριήρεις.
But these generals, being at variance with one another, sailed out to Oropus; for there the triremes of the enemy were riding at anchor.
γενομένης οὖν ναυμαχίας ἐνίκων οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, καὶ σκαφῶν εἴκοσι καὶ δυεῖν ἐκυρίευσαν.
Therefore, when a sea-battle took place, the Lacedaemonians were victorious and captured twenty-two vessels.
§13.34.4Συρακόσιοι δὲ καταλελυκότες τὸν πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πόλεμον, τοὺς μὲν Λακεδαιμονίους συμμαχήσαντας, ὧν ἦρχε Γύλιππος, ἐτίμησαν τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου λαφύροις, συναπέστειλαν δʼ αὐτοῖς εἰς Λακεδαίμονα συμμαχίαν εἰς τὸν πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πόλεμον τριάκοντα καὶ πέντε τριήρεις, ὧν ἦρχεν Ἑρμοκράτης ὁ πρωτεύων τῶν πολιτῶν.
The Syracusans, having concluded the war against the Athenians, honored the Lacedaemonians who had fought as their allies, whom Gylippus commanded, with the spoils of the war, and sent back with them to Lacedaemon, as an alliance for the war against the Athenians, thirty-five triremes, commanded by Hermocrates, the foremost of their citizens.
§13.34.5αὐτοὶ δὲ τὰς ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου γενομένας ὠφελείας ἀθροίσαντες τοὺς μὲν ναοὺς ἀναθήμασι καὶ σκύλοις ἐκόσμησαν, τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν τοὺς ἀριστεύσαντας ταῖς προσηκούσαις δωρεαῖς ἐτίμησαν.
They themselves, having collected the profits made from the war, adorned the temples with dedications and spoils, and honored those of the soldiers who had distinguished themselves with appropriate gifts.
§13.34.6μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα τῶν δημαγωγῶν ὁ πλεῖστον παρʼ αὐτοῖς ἰσχύσας Διοκλῆς ἔπεισε τὸν δῆμον μεταστῆσαι τὴν πολιτείαν εἰς τὸ κλήρῳ τὰς ἀρχὰς διοικεῖσθαι, ἑλέσθαι δὲ καὶ νομοθέτας εἰς τὸ τὴν πολιτείαν διατάξαι καὶ νόμους καινοὺς ἰδίᾳ συγγράψαι.
After this, Diocles, who had the greatest influence among them of the demagogues, persuaded the people to change the constitution so that the offices should be administered by lot, and also to choose lawmakers in order to arrange the constitution and to draft new laws of their own.