The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

complaint against them. On the contrary,
Rhinon was immediately elected general on account of his conduct in
this office.
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    This reconciliation was effected in the archonship of Eucleides,
on the following terms. All persons who, having remained in the
city during the troubles, were now anxious to leave it, were to be
free to settle at Eleusis, retaining their civil rights and
possessing full and independent powers of self-government, and with
the free enjoyment of their own personal property. The temple at
Eleusis should be common ground for both parties, and should be
under the superintendence of the Ceryces, and the Eumolpidae,
according to primitive custom. The settlers at Eleusis should not
be allowed to enter Athens, nor the people of Athens to enter
Eleusis, except at the season of the mysteries, when both parties
should be free from these restrictions. The secessionists should
pay their share to the fund for the common defence out of their
revenues, just like all the other Athenians. If any of the seceding
party wished to take a house in Eleusis, the people would help them
to obtain the consent of the owner; but if they could not come to
terms, they should appoint three valuers on either side, and the
owner should receive whatever price they should appoint. Of the
inhabitants of Eleusis, those whom the secessionists wished to
remain should be allowed to do so. The list of those who desired to
secede should be made up within ten days after the taking of the
oaths in the case of persons already in the country, and their
actual departure should take place within twenty days; persons at
present out of the country should have the same terms allowed to
them after their return. No one who settled at Eleusis should be
capable of holding any office in Athens until he should again
register himself on the roll as a resident in the city. Trials for
homicide, including all cases in which one party had either killed
or wounded another, should be conducted according to ancestral
practice. There should be a general amnesty concerning past events
towards all persons except the Thirty, the Ten, the Eleven, and the
magistrates in Piraeus; and these too should be included if they
should submit their accounts in the usual way. Such accounts should
be given by the magistrates in Piraeus before a court of citizens
rated in Piraeus, and by the magistrates in the city before a court
of those rated in the city. On these terms those who wished to do
so might secede. Each party was to repay separately the money which
it had borrowed for the war.
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    When the reconciliation had taken place on these terms, those
who had fought on the side of the Thirty felt considerable
apprehensions, and a large number intended to secede. But as they
put off entering their names till the last moment, as people will
do, Archinus, observing their numbers, and being anxious to retain
them as citizens, cut off the remaining days during which the list
should have remained open; and in this way many persons were
compelled to remain, though they did so very unwillingly until they
recovered confidence. This is one point in which Archinus appears
to have acted in a most statesmanlike manner, and another was his
subsequent prosecution of Thrasybulus on the charge of illegality,
for a motion by which he proposed to confer the franchise on all
who had taken part in the return from Piraeus, although some of
them were notoriously slaves. And yet a third such action was when
one of the returned exiles began to violate the amnesty, whereupon
Archinus haled him to the Council and persuaded them to execute him
without trial, telling them that now they would have to show
whether they wished to preserve the democracy and abide by the
oaths they had taken; for if they let this man escape they would
encourage others to imitate him, while if they executed him they
would make an example for all to learn by. And this was exactly
what happened; for after this man had been put to death no one ever
again broke the amnesty. On the contrary, the Athenians seem, both
in public and in private, to have behaved in the most
unprecedentedly admirable and public-spirited way with reference to
the preceding troubles. Not only did they blot out all memory of
former offences, but they even repaid to the Lacedaemonians out of
the public purse the money which the Thirty had borrowed for the
war, although the treaty required each party, the party of the city
and the party of Piraeus, to pay its