Cinadon. Further, the
authorities instructed Cinadon that they would send three waggons
to save bringing back his captives on foot--concealing as deeply as
possible the fact that he, and he alone, was the object of the mission.
Their reason for not securing him in the city was that they did not
really know the extent of the mischief; and they wished, in the first
instance, to learn from Cinadon who his accomplices were before these
latter could discover they were informed against and effect their
escape. His captors were to secure him first, and having learnt from
him the names of his confederates, to write them down and send them
as quickly as possible to the ephors. The ephors, indeed, were so much
concerned about the whole occurrence that they further sent a company of
horse to assist their agents at Aulon. (12) As soon as the capture was
effected, and one of the horsemen was back with the list of names taken
down on the information of Cinadon, they lost no time in apprehending
the soothsayer Tisamenus and the rest who were the principals in
the conspiracy. When Cinadon (13) himself was brought back and
cross-examined, and had made a full confession of the whole plot, his
plans, and his accomplices, they put to him one final question: "What
was your object in undertaking this business?" He answered: "I wished to
be inferior to no man in Lacedaemon." Let that be as it might, his fate
was to be taken out forthwith in irons, just as he was, and to be placed
with his two hands and his neck in the collar, and so under scourge and
goad to be driven, himself and his accomplices, round the city. Thus
upon the heads of those was visited the penalty of their offences.

(8) "And pointed to a well-concerted plan."

(9) See Grote, "H. G." ix. 348.

(10) See Thuc. i. 131; Plut. "Lys." 19 (Clough, iii. p. 125).

(11) "The Hippagretes (or commander of the three hundred guards called
horsemen, though they were not really mounted)." Grote, "H. G."
vol. ix. p. 349; see "Pol. Lac." iv. 3.

(12) Or, "to those on the way to Aulon."

(13) See for Cinadon's case, Arist. "Pol." v. 7, 3.

IV

B.C. 397. (1) It was after the incidents just recorded that a Syracusan
named Herodas brought news to Lacedaemon. He had chanced to be in
Phoenicia with a certain shipowner, and was struck by the number of
Phoenician triremes which he observed, some coming into harbour from
other ports, others already there with their ships' co