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