§35XXXV. οἱ μὲν οὖν τριάκοντα τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον κατέστησαν ἐπὶ Πμθοδώρου ἂρχοντος.
XXXV. Thus the Thirty were established in this manner in the archonship of Pythodorus.
γενόμενοι δὲ κύριοι τῆς πολεως τὰ μὲν ἂλλα τὰ δόξαντα περὶ τῆς πολιτείας παρεώρων, πεντακοσίους δὲ βουλευτάς καὶ τὰς ἂλλας ἀρχὰς καταστήσαντες ἐκ προκρίτων ἐκ τῶν κιλίων, καὶ προσελόμενοι σφίσιν αὐτοῖς τοῦ Πειραιέως ἂρχοντας δέκα καὶ δεσμωτηρίου φύλακας ἓνδεκα καὶ μαστιγοφόρους τριακοσίους ὑπηρέτας κατεῖχον τὴν πόλιν δι’ ἐαυτῶν.
Having become masters of the city, they ignored the other matters that had been decided regarding the constitution, and appointing five hundred councilors and the other magistrates from candidates pre-selected from the Thousand, and choosing in addition for themselves ten rulers of the Peiraeus, eleven guardians of the prison, and three hundred attendants as whip-bearers, they held the city under their own control.
τὸ μὲν οὖν πρῶντον μέτριοι τοῖς πολίταις ἦσαν καὶ προσε. ποιτύντο διοικεῖν τῆν πάτριον πολιτείαν, καὶ τούς τ’ Ἐφιάλτου καὶ Ἀρχε στράτου νόμους τοὺς περὶ τῶν Ἀρεοπαγιτῶν καθεῖλον ἐξ᾿ Αρείου πάγο[υ] καὶ τῶν Σόλωνος θεσμῶν ὄσι διαμφισβητήσεις εἷχον, καὶ τὸ κῦρος ὅ ἧν ἐν τοῖς δικασταῖς κατέλυσαν, ὡς ἐπανορθοῦτες καὶ ποιοῦντες ἀνμφισβήτητον τὴν πολιτείαν· οἷον | περὶ τοῦ δοῦναι τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ᾦ ἄν ἐθέλῃ κύριον ποίησαντες σαντες καθάπαξ, τὰς δὲ προσούσας δυσκολίας ῾ἐὰν μὴ μανιῶν ἢ γηρῶν ἠ γυναικὶ πιθόμενος᾿ ἀφεῖλον, ὅπως μὴ ᾖ τοῖς συκοφάνταις ἔφοδος· ὁμοίως δὲ τοῦτ᾿ ἔδρων καὶ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων.
At first, then, they were moderate toward the citizens, and pretended to administer the ancestral constitution, and they pulled down from the Areopagus the laws of Ephialtes and Arche- stratus concerning the Areopagites, and those of Solon's laws which had ambiguities, and they abolished the final authority that resided in the jurors, as if they were correcting and making the constitution indisputable; for example, they made a man's power to give his own property to whomever he wishes absolute once and for all, and removed the attached difficulties, such as "except when a man is insane, or aged, or influenced by a woman," so that there might be no avenue of attack for the sycophants; and they did likewise in other matters too.
κατ᾿ ἀρχὰς μὲν οὗν ταῦτ᾿ ἐποίουν καὶ τοὺς συκοφάντας καὶ τοὺς τῷ δήμῳ πρὸς χάριν ὅμιλοῦντας παρὰ τὸ βέλτιστον καὶ κακοπράγμονας ὄντας καὶ πονηροὺς ἀνῄρουν, ἐφ᾿ οἷς ἔχαιρον ἡ πόλις γιγνομένοις, ἡγούμενοι τοῦ βελτίστου χάριν ποιεῖν ἐπεὶ δὲ τὴν πόλιν ἐγκρατέστερον ἔσχον, οὐδενὸς ἀπείχοντο τῶν πολιτῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ὑπεξαιρούμενοί τε τὸν φόβον καὶ βουλόμενοι τὰς οὐσίας διαρπάζειν· χρόνου διαπεσόντος βραχέος οὐκ ἐλάττους ἀνῃρήκεσαν ἢ χιλίους πεντακοσίους.
At first, then, they did these things, and they did away with the sycophants and those who associated with the people to curry favor contrary to what was best, being troublemakers and wicked men, at whose destruction the city rejoiced, thinking that they were doing this for the sake of the best. But when they held the city more securely, they spared none of the citizens, but removed those who inspired fear and wished to plunder their estates; and in a short space of time they had put to death no fewer than fifteen hundred people.
§36XXXVI. οὕτως δὲ τῆς πόλεως ὑποφερομένης Θηραμένης ἀγανκτῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς γιγνομένοις τῆς μὲν ἀσελγείας αὐτοῖς παῄνει παύσασθαι, μεταδοῦναι δὲ τῶν πραγμάτων τοῖς βελτίστος.
XXXVI. While the city was declining in this way, Theramenes, being indignant at what was happening, exhorted them to cease from their insolence and to share the government with the best citizens.
οἱ δὲ πρῶτον ἐναντιωθέντες, ἐπεὶ διεσπάρησαν οἱλόγοι πρὸς τὸ πλῆθος καὶ πρὸς τὸν Θηραμένην οἰκείως εἷχον οἱ πολλοί, φοβηθέντες μὴ προστάτης γενόμενος τοῦ δήμου καταλάυσῃ τὴν δυναστείαν καταλέγουσιν τῶν πολιτῶν τρισχιλίους ὡς μεταδώσοντες τῆς πολιτείας.
But they at first opposed him, but when their discussions were spread among the multitude, and the majority was friendly toward Theramenes, fearing lest he should become a leader of the people and overthrow their oligarchy, they registered three thousand of the citizens as if they were going to share the constitution with them.
Θηραμένης δὲ πάλιν ἐπιτιμᾷ καὶ τούτοις, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι βουλόμενοι μεταδοῦναι τοῖς ἐπιεικέσι τρισχιλίοις μόνοις μεταδιδόασι, ὡς ἐν τούτῳ τῷ πλήθει τῆς ἀρετῆς ὡρισμένης ἔπειθ᾿ ὅτι δύο τὰ ἐναντιώτατα ποιοῦσιν, βίαιόν τε τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τῶν ἀρχομένων ἥττω κατασκευάζοντες.
But Theramenes again criticized these measures, first because, wishing to share the government with the respectable citizens, they shared it with only three thousand, as if virtue were limited within this number; and secondly because they were doing two most contradictory things, making their rule both based on force and weaker than those who were ruled.
οἱ δὲ τούτων μὲν ὠλιγώρησαν, τὸν δὲ κατάλογον τῶν πρισχιλίων πολὺν μὲν χρόνον ὑπερεβάλλοντο καὶ παρ’ αὑτοῖς ἐφύλαττον τοὺς ἐγνεσμένους, ὃτε δὲ καὶ δόξειεν αὐτοῖς ἐξφέρειν τοὺς μὲν ἐξήλειφον τῶν <ἐγ>γεγραμμένων, τοὺς δ’ ἀντενέγραφον τῶν ἒξωθεν.
But they paid no attention to these arguments, and delayed publishing the register of the three thousand for a long time, keeping those who had been selected in their own possession; and whenever they decided to publish it, they erased some of those who had been written in, and registered others from outside.
§37XXXVII. ἢδη δὲ τοῦ χειμῶνος ἐνεστῶτος, καταλαβόντος Θρασυβούλου μετὰ τῶν φυγάσων Φυλήν, καὶ κατὰ τὴν στρατιὰν ἣν ἐξήγαγον οἱ τριάκοντα κακῶς ἀποχωρήσαντες, ἒγνωσαν τῶν μὲν ἂλλων τὰ ὃπλα παρελέσθαι, Θηραμένην δὲ διαφθεῖραι τόνδε <τὸν> τρόπον.
XXXVII. Now when winter had already set in, and Thrasybulus with the exiles had seized Phyle, and when the army which the Thirty had led out returned in failure, they resolved to strip the others of their weapons and to destroy Theramenes in the following manner.
νόμους εἰσήνεγκαν εἰς βουλὴν δύο κελεύοντες | ἐπιχειροτονεῖν, ὦν ὁ μὲν εἶς αὐτοχράτορας ἐποίει τοὺς τριάκοντα τῶν πολιτῶν ἀποκτεῖναι τοὺς μὴ τοῦ καταλόγου μετέχοντας τῶν τρισχιλίων, ὁ δ’ ἓτερος ἐκώλυεοιvωἔι τῆς παρούσης πολιτείας ὃσοι τυγχάνουσιν τὸ ἐν Ἠετιωνείᾳ τεῖχος κατασκάψαντες ἢ τοῖς τετρακοσίοις ἐναντίον τι πράξαντες [ἢ] τοῖς κατασκευάσασι τὴν ἀλιγαρκίαν·
They introduced two laws into the council, ordering them to vote on them, of which one made the Thirty sovereign to put to death those citizens who did not participate in the register of the three thousand, and the other excluded from the present constitution all those who happened to have demolished the fort at Eetioneia or to have done anything against the Four Hundred or those who established the oligarchy.
ὦν ἐτύγχανεν ἀμφοτέρων κεκοινωνηκὼς ὁ Θηραμένης, ὣστε συνέβαινεν ἐπικυρωθέντων τῶν νόμων ἒξω τε γίγνεσθαι τῆς πολιτείας αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς τριάκοντα κυρίους εἶναι θανατοῦντας.
Since Theramenes happened to have shared in both of these, the result was that, when the laws were ratified, he was excluded from the constitution and the Thirty became sovereign to put him to death.
ἀναιρεθέντος δὲ Θηραμένους μένους τά τε ὃπλα παρείλοντο πάντων πλὴν τῶν τρισχιλίων καὶ ἐν τοὶς ἂλλοις πολὺ πρὸς ὠμότητα καὶ πονηρίαν ἐπέδοσαν.
When Theramenes had been removed, they stripped all except the three thousand of their weapons, and in other respects they advanced far in cruelty and wickedness.
πρέσβεις <δὲ> εἰς Λακεδαίμονα τοῦ τε Θηραμένους κατηγόρουν καὶ βοηθεῖν αὑτοῖς ἠξίουν· ὦν ἀκούσαντες οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι Καλλίβιο ἀπέστειλαν ἀρμοστὴν καὶ στρατιώτας ὡς ἑπτακοσίους, οἳ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἐλθόντες ἐφρούρουν.
And they sent ambassadors to Lacedaemon, accusing Theramenes and asking them to help them; hearing these things, the Lacedaemonians sent Callibius as governor and about seven hundred soldiers, who came to the acropolis and guarded it.