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411 B.C.After the close of the year Theopompus was archon in
Athens and the Romans elected in place of consuls
four military tribunes, Tiberius Postumius, Gaius Cornelius, Gaius Valerius, and Caeso Fabius.
At this time the Athenians dissolved the oligarchy of the Four Hundred and formed the
constitution of the government from the citizens at large.This step was the government of the Five Thousand in place of the oligarchy of the Four
Hundred. The old democracy was restored the following year.
The author of all these changes was Theramenes, a man who was
orderly in his manner of life and was reputed to surpass all others in judgement; for he was
the only person to advise the recall from exile of Alcibiades, through whom the Athenians
recovered themselves, and since he was the author of many other measures for the benefit of his
country, he was the recipient of no small approbation. But these events took place at a little later time, a
Isaeus, Dicaeogenes, section 6 (search)
Dicaeogenes, having sailed out as commander of the Paralus,The Paralus, which in time of peace was one of the two sacred vessels used for the conveyance of religious missions, ambassadors, etc., was used in war as the flagship of the commander of a squadron. was killed in action at Cnidus.The engagement at Cnidus probably refers to the battle near Syme in 411 B.C. （see Thuc. 8.42）. He died without issue, and Proxenus, the father of Dicaeogenes （III.） here, produced a will, in reliance on which our fathersMenexenus III., the speaker, is pleading on behalf of himself and his cousins Menexenus II. and Cephisodotus, whose fathers had married two of the sisters of Dicaeogenes II. distributed his estate. Under the will Dicaeogenes （III.） here was to be recognized as the adopted son of Dicaeogenes （II.）, the son of Menexenus （I.） and our uncle, and heir to a third of his estate of the remainder an equal share was adjudicated to each of the daughters of Menexenus （I.）. Of t
Isocrates, Areopagiticus (ed. George Norlin), section 58 (search)
Well, if I were proposing a course which was unfamiliar and not generally known, and if I were urging you to appoint a committee or a commissionThe very word （suggrafei=s） which was used of the board of twenty men appointed to make recommendations of a change in the constitution before the establishment of the oligarchy of the Four Hundred, 411 B.C. to consider it, which was the means through which the democracy was done away with before, there might be some reason for this charge. I have, however, proposed nothing of the kind, but have been discussing a government whose character is hidden from no one, but evident to a
Isocrates, On the Peace (ed. George Norlin), section 51 (search)
We are concerned about our polity no less than about the safety of the whole state and we know that our democracy flourishes and endures in times of peace and security while in times of war it has twice already been overthrown,By the oligarchical revolution of 411 B.C., when the government of the Four Hundred was established, and that of 404 B.C., when the reign of the Thirty began. but we are hostile to those who desire peace as if suspecting them of favoring oligarchy,For example, Timotheus, who was no flatterer. See Isoc. 15.131 ff. Cf. Isoc. 15.318. while we are friendly to those who advocate war as if assured of their devotion to democracy.
Isocrates, On the Peace (ed. George Norlin), section 123 (search)
but that our democracy itself under the leadership of the former remained unshaken and unchanged for many years,A century, from the reforms of Cleisthenes in 510 to the revolution of 411 B.C. whereas under the guidance of these men it has already, within a short period of time,In 411 and 404 B.C. been twice overthrown, and that, furthermore, our people who were driven into exile under the despots and in the time of the Thirty were restored to the state, not through the efforts of the sycophants,False accusers, slanderers, professional blackmailers—a class of persons which sprang up like weeds in Athens after the age of Pericles. Their favorite device was to extort money by threatening or instituting law-suits. But the word was applied indiscriminately by Isocrates and others to demagogues and politicians of the opposite party. See Lafberg, Sycophancy in Athens. Cf. Aristoph. Pl. 850 ff. The term “flatterers” is used in 4. but through those leaders who despised men of that character<
For in what respect did he lack utter felicity? Such ancestors Fortune gave to him as to no other man, unless it has been one sprung from the same stock, and so greatly in body and mind did he excel others that he was worthy to hold sway over not only Salamis but the whole of Asia also: and having acquired most gloriously his kingdom he continued in its possession all his life: and though a mortal by birth, he left behind a memory of himself that is immortal, and he lived just so long that he was neither unacquainted with old age, nor afflicted with the infirmities attendant upon that time of life.Evagoras seized the power not later than 411 B.C., when the Athenian orator Andocides, in exile, found him reigning. He died in 374-373 B.C. Isocrates, in his depiction of the happy lot of the king, naturally must ignore the fact that Evagoras seems to have been assassinated !
And with what results? We have been plunged into warThe Peloponnesian War.; we have seen many of our fellow-countrymen suffer, some of them dying in battle, some made prisoners of war, and others reduced to the last extremities of want; we have seen the democracy twice overthrown,First by the oligarchy of the Four Hundred in 411 B.C., secondly by the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants in 404 B.C., after the downfall of the Athenian Empire. the walls which defended our country torn downOne of the terms of peace at the end of the war was that the “long walls” connecting Athens with the Piraeus should be torn down.; and, worst of all, we have seen the whole city in peril of being enslaved,After her surrender to Sparta and the allies of Sparta at the close of the Peloponnesian War. See Isoc. 7.6 and note; Xen. Hell. 2.2.19-20. Cf. Isoc. 8.78, 105; Isoc. 14.23. and our enemy encamped on the Acropolis.A Spartan garrison occupied the Acropolis during the reign of the Thir
Isocrates, On the team of horses (ed. George Norlin), section 5 (search)
Now the persons who first plotted against the democracy and established the Four Hundred,The Revolution of the Four Hundred in 411 B.C. conducted the Athenian government for only a few months. inasmuch as my father, although he was repeatedly invited to join them would not do so, seeing that he was a vigorous opponent of their activities and a loyal supporter of the people, judged that they were powerless to upset the established order until he was removed out of their way.