isting; and
Leon and Diomedon left behind some ships for their protection in case
of their sailing away anywhere themselves. Accordingly, when the Three
Hundred attacked the people, all these came to the rescue, and foremost
of all the crew of the Paralus; and the Samian commons gained the
victory, and putting to death some thirty of the Three Hundred, and
banishing three others of the ringleaders, accorded an amnesty to the
rest, and lived together under a democratic government for the future.

The ship Paralus, with Chaereas, son of Archestratus, on board, an
Athenian who had taken an active part in the revolution, was now without
loss of time sent off by the Samians and the army to Athens to report
what had occurred; the fact that the Four Hundred were in power
not being yet known. When they sailed into harbour the Four Hundred
immediately arrested two or three of the Parali and, taking the vessel
from the rest, shifted them into a troopship and set them to keep guard
round Euboea. Chaereas, however, managed to secrete himself as soon as
he saw how things stood, and returning to Samos, drew a picture to the
soldiers of the horrors enacting at Athens, in which everything was
exaggerated; saying that all were punished with stripes, that no one
could say a word against the holders of power, that the soldiers' wives
and children were outraged, and that it was intended to seize and
shut up the relatives of all in the army at Samos who were not of
the government's way of thinking, to be put to death in case of their
disobedience; besides a host of other injurious inventions.

On hearing this the first thought of the army was to fall upon the chief
authors of the oligarchy and upon all the rest concerned. Eventually,
however, they desisted from this idea upon the men of moderate views
opposing it and warning them against ruining their cause, with the enemy
close at hand and ready for battle. After this, Thrasybulus, son of
Lycus, and Thrasyllus, the chief leaders in the revolution, now wishing
in the most public manner to change the government at Samos to a
democracy, bound all the soldiers by the most tremendous oaths, and
those of the oligarchical party more than any, to accept a democratic
government, to be united, to prosecute actively the war with the
Peloponnesians, and to be enemies of the Four Hundred, and to hold no
communication with them. The same oath was also taken by all the Samians
of full age; and the soldi