introduced—multiplied executions by Kritias and the Thirty.—Opposition of Theramenês to these measures—violence and rapacity still farther increased—rich and oligarchical men put to death.—Plan of Kritias to gain adherents by forcing men to become accomplices in deeds of blood—resistance of Sokratês.—Terror and discontent in the city—the Thirty nominate a body of Three Thousand as partisan hoplites.—They disarm the remaining hoplites of the city.—Murders and spoliations by the Thirty. Seizure of the Metics.—Seizure of Lysias the rhetor and his brother Polemarchus. The former escapes—the latter is executed.—Increased exasperation of Kritias and the majority of the Thirty against Theramenês.—Theramenês is denounced by Kritias in the Senate—speech of Kritias.—Reply of Theramenês.—Extreme violence of Kritias and the Thirty.—Condemnation of Theramenês.—Death of Theramenês—remarks on his character.—Increased tyranny of Kritias and the Thirty.—The Thirty forbid intellectual teaching.—Sokratês and the Thirty.—Growing insecurity of the Thirty.—Gradual alteration of feeling in Greece, since the capture of Athens.—Demand by the allies of Sparta to share in the spoils of the war—refused by Sparta.—Unparalleled ascendency of Lysander.—His overweening ambition—oppressive dominion of Sparta.—Disgust excited in Greece by the enormities of the Thirty.—Opposition to Lysander at Sparta—king Pausanias.—Kallikratidas compared with Lysander.—Sympathy at Thebes and elsewhere with the Athenian exiles.—Thrasybulus seizes Phylê—repulses the Thirty in their attack.—Farther success of Thrasybulus—the Thirty retreat to Athens.—Discord among the oligarchy at Athens—seizure of the Eleusinians.—Thrasybulus establishes himself in Peiræus.—The Thirty attack him and are defeated—Kritias is slain.—Colloquy during the burial-truce—language of Kleokritus.—Discouragement of the oligarchs at Athens—deposition of the Thirty and appointment of the Ten—the Thirty go to Eleusis.—The Ten carry on the war against the exiles.—Increasing strength of Thrasybulus.—Arrival of Lysander in Attica with a Spartan force.—Straightened condition of the exiles in Peiræus.—Spartan king Pausanias conducts an expedition into Attica; opposed to Lysander.—His dispositions unfavorable to the oligarchy; reaction against the Thirty.—Pausanias attacks Peiræus; his partial success.—Peace party in Athens—sustained by Pausanias.—Pacification granted by Pausanias and the Spartan authorities.—The Spartans evacuate Attica—Thrasybulus and the exiles are restored—harangue of Thrasybulus.—Restoration of the democracy.—Capture of Eleusis—entire reunion of Attica—flight of the survivors of the Thirty. 210-290 CHAPTER LXVI. FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE DEMOCRACY TO THE DEATH OF ALKIBIADES.