§6.1His cum obviam universa civitas in Piraeum descendisset, tanta fuit omnium exspectatio visendi Alcibiadis, ut ad eius triremem vulgus conflueret, proinde ac si solus advenisset.
When the entire city had gone down to Piraeus to meet them, so great was everyone's expectation of seeing Alcibiades that the crowd flocked to his trireme, just as if he had arrived alone.
§6.2sic enim populo erat persuasum, et adversas superiores et praesentes secundas res accidisse eius opera.
For the people were so convinced that both past adversities and present successes had occurred through his agency.
itaque et exercitum in Sicilia amissum et Lacedaemoniorum victorias culpae suae tribuebant, quod talem virum e civitate expulissent.
Therefore, they attributed both the army lost in Sicily and the victories of the Lacedaemonians to their own fault, because they had expelled such a man from the state.
neque id sine causa arbitrari videbantur. nam postquam exercitui praeesse coeperat, neque terra neque mari hostes pares esse potuerant.
And they did not seem to think so without reason; for after he had begun to be in command of the army, the enemies had been able to be equal neither by land nor by sea.
§6.3hic ut e navi egressus est, quamquam Theramenes et Thrasybulus eisdem rebus praefuerant simulque venerant in Piraeum, tamen unum omnes illum prosequebantur, et, id quod numquam antea usu venerat nisi Olympiae victoribus, coronis laureis taeniisque vulgo donabatur.
When he stepped out of the ship, although Theramenes and Thrasybulus had been in charge of the same operations and had arrived in Piraeus at the same time, nevertheless everyone followed him alone, and, a thing which had never before occurred except to victors at Olympia, he was publicly presented with laurel crowns and ribbons.
ille lacrimans talem benivolentiam civium suorum accipiebat, reminiscens pristini temporis acerbitatem.
Weeping, he accepted such goodwill from his fellow citizens, recalling the bitterness of the former time.
§6.4postquam in astu venit, contione advocata sic verba fecit, ut nemo tam ferus fuerit, quin eius casui illacrimarit inimicumque iis se ostenderit, quorum opera patria pulsus fuerat, proinde ac si alius populus, non ille ipse qui tum flebat, eum sacrilegii damnasset.
After he came into the city, an assembly having been called, he spoke in such a way that no one was so unfeeling but that he wept for his misfortune and showed himself an enemy to those by whose agency he had been driven from his country, just as if another people, and not that very one which was then weeping, had condemned him for sacrilege.
§6.5restituta ergo huic sunt publice bona, eidemque illi Eumolpidae sacerdotes rursus resacrare sunt coacti, qui eum devoverant, pilaeque illae, in quibus devotio fuerat scripta, in mare praecipitatae.
Therefore, his property was publicly restored to him, and those same Eumolpidae priests who had cursed him were forced to consecrate him again, and those pillars on which the curse had been written were cast into the sea.