Chapter LXVI

FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE DEMOCRACY TO THE DEATH OF
ALKIBIADES.

Miserable condition of Athens during the two preceding
years.—Immediate relief caused by the restoration.—Unanimous
sentiment towards the renewed democracy.—Amnesty—treatment
of the Thirty and the Ten.—Disfranchising proposition
of Phormisius.—The proposition rejected—speech composed
by Lysias against it.—Revision of the laws—the
Nomothetæ.—Decree, that no criminal inquiries should
be carried back beyond the archonship of Eukleidês,
B.C. 403.—Oath taken by the senate and the dikasts
modified.—Farther precautions to insure the observance of
the amnesty.—Absence of harsh reactionary feeling, both
after the Thirty and after the Four Hundred.—Generous
and reasonable behavior of the demos—contrasted with
that of the oligarchy.—Care of the people to preserve
the rights of private property.—Repayment to the
Lacedæmonians.—The horsemen, or knights.—Revision of
the laws—Nikomachus.—Adoption of the fuller Ionic
alphabet, in place of the old Attic, for writing up the
laws.—Memorable epoch of the archonship of Eukleidês.
The rhetor Lysias.—Other changes at Athens—abolition
of the Board of Hellenotamiæ—restriction of the
right of citizenship.—Honorary reward to Thrasybulus
and the exiles.—Position and views of Alkibiadês in
Asia.—Artaxerxes Mnêmon, the new king of Persia. Plans
of Cyrus—Alkibiadês wishes to reveal them at Susa.—The
Lacedæmonians conjointly with Cyrus require Pharnabazus to
put him to death.—Assassination of Alkibiadês by order of
Pharnabazus.—Character of Alkibiadês. 290-316