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[2] For never in any state have there taken place such murderings of citizens nor have there been greater quarrelling and contentiousness which culminated in bloodshed.1 For it would seem that the number of those who were slain by their fellow citizens before the present civil strife was some fifteen hundred, and all of these were leading citizens.

1 Thucydides (Thuc. 3.70 ff.) describes the earlier civil strife on the island.

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