§14.37.1περὶ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον τῶν ἐστρατευμένων μετὰ Κύρου καὶ διασωθέντων εἰς τὴν Ἑλλάδα τινὲς μὲν εἰς τὰς ἰδίας πατρίδας ἀπηλλάγησαν, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι στρατιωτικὸν εἰθισμένοι ζῆν βίον, καὶ σχεδὸν ὄντες πεντακισχίλιοι, στρατηγὸν αὑτῶν εἵλαντο Ξενοφῶντα. §14.37.2ὃς ἀναλαβὼν τὴν δύναμιν ὥρμησε πολεμήσων Θρᾷκας τοὺς περὶ τὸν Σαλμυδησσὸν οἰκοῦντας· οὗτος δʼ ἔστι μὲν ἐπʼ ἀριστερᾷ τοῦ Πόντου, παρεκτείνων δʼ ἐπὶ πολὺ πλεῖστα ποιεῖ ναυάγια. §14.37.3οἱ μὲν οὖν Θρᾷκες εἰώθεισαν περὶ τούτους τοὺς τόπους ἐφεδρεύοντες τοὺς ἐκπίπτοντας τῶν ἐμπόρων αἰχμαλωτίζειν· ὁ δὲ Ξενοφῶν μετὰ τῶν συνηθροισμένων στρατιωτῶν ἐμβαλὼν αὐτῶν εἰς τὴν χώραν μάχῃ τε ἐνίκησε καὶ τὰς πλείστας τῶν κωμῶν ἐνέπρησεν· §14.37.4μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Θίβρωνος αὐτοὺς μεταπεμπομένου καὶ μισθοὺς ἐπαγγελλομένου δώσειν, πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἀπεχώρησαν καὶ μετὰ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπολέμουν τοῖς Πέρσαις. §14.37.5τούτων δὲ πραττομένων Διονύσιος μὲν ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ πόλιν ἔκτισεν ὑπʼ αὐτὸν τὸν τῆς Αἴτνης λόφον, καὶ ἀπό τινος ἐπιφανοῦς ἱεροῦ προσηγόρευσεν αὐτὴν Ἄδρανον. §14.37.6κατὰ δὲ τὴν Μακεδονίαν Ἀρχέλαος ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔν τινι κυνηγίῳ πληγεὶς ἀκουσίως ὑπὸ Κρατεροῦ τοῦ ἐρωμένου τὸν βίον μετήλλαξε, βασιλεύσας ἔτη ἑπτά· τὴν δʼ ἀρχὴν διεδέξατο Ὀρέστης παῖς ὤν, ὃν ἀνελὼν Ἀέροπος ἐπίτροπος ὢν κατέσχε τὴν βασιλείαν ἔτη ἕξ. §14.37.7Ἀθήνησι δὲ Σωκράτης ὁ φιλόσοφος ὑπʼ Ἀνύτου καὶ Μελήτου κατηγορηθεὶς ἐπʼ ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ φθορᾷ τῶν νέων, θανάτῳ κατεδικάσθη καὶ πιὼν κώνειον ἐτελεύτησεν.
About the same time, of those who had campaigned with Cyrus and had returned safely to Greece, some departed to their own homelands, but the majority, accustomed to living a military life and numbering nearly five thousand, chose Xenophon as their general. Having taken over this force, he set out to make war on the Thracians who dwelt around Salmydessus; this place is on the left of the Pontus, and extending as it does over a great distance, it causes a very great number of shipwrecks. Now the Thracians were accustomed to lie in wait about these regions and to enslave those of the merchants who were cast ashore; but Xenophon, having invaded their territory with the assembled soldiers, defeated them in battle and burned most of their villages. After this, when Thibron sent for them and promised to give them pay, they departed to him and fought alongside the Lacedaemonians against the Persians. While these things were being done, Dionysius in Sicily founded a city at the very foot of Mount Aetna, and named it Adranon after a certain famous temple. In Macedonia, King Archelaus, having been accidentally struck in a certain hunt by Craterus, his beloved, departed this life after reigning seven years; Orestes succeeded to the rule, being a child, but Aeropus, who was his guardian, slew him and held the kingship for six years. In Athens, Socrates the philosopher, having been accused by Anytus and Meletus of impiety and corruption of the youth, was condemned to death and died by drinking hemlock.
ἀδίκου δὲ τῆς κατηγορίας γεγενημένης ὁ δῆμος μετεμελήθη, τηλικοῦτον ἄνδρα θεωρῶν ἀνῃρημένον· διόπερ τοὺς κατηγορήσαντας διʼ ὀργῆς εἶχε καὶ τέλος ἀκρίτους ἀπέκτεινεν.
But since the accusation had been unjust, the people repented when they saw that such a great man had been destroyed; therefore, they held the accusers in anger and finally put them to death without trial.