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[3] The Athenians, enraged, condemned Leosthenes to death as a traitor and confiscated his property, then choosing Chares1 as general in command and giving him a fleet, they sent him out. But he spent his time avoiding the enemy and injuring the allies. For he sailed to Corcyra, an allied city, and stirred up such violent civil strife in it that many murders and seizures took place, with the result that the Athenian democracy was discredited in the eyes of the allies. So it turned out that Chares, who did many other such lawless acts, accomplished nothing good but brought his country into discredit.

1 For Chares and Corcyra see Aeneas Tacticus 11.13 ff. Demosthenes notes the hostility of Corcyra in Dem. 24.202 and Dem. 18.234.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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