But after we came together and exchanged the solemn pledges, we have lived so uprightly
 and so like citizens of one country that it seemed as if no misfortune had ever befallen
 us. At that time all looked upon us as the most foolish and ill-fated of mankind; now,
 however, we are regarded as the happiest and wisest of the Greeks. Therefore it is incumbent upon us to inflict upon those who dare to violate the covenant,
 not merely the heavy penalties prescribed by the treaty, but the most extreme, on the
 ground that these persons are the cause of the greatest evils, especially those who have
 lived as Callimachus has lived. For during the ten years A
 reference to the so-called Decelean War ( 413-404
 B.C. ) when the Spartans occupied Decelea in Attica. when the
 Lacedaemonians warred upon you uninterruptedly, not for one single day’s service did he
 present himself to the generals; on the contrary, all through that period he continued to evade service and to keep his
 property in concealment. But when the Thirty came to power, then it was that he sailed
 back to Athens. And although he professes to be a friend of the people, yet he was so much
 more eager than anybody else to participate in the oligarchical government that, even
 though it meant hardship, he saw fit not to depart, but preferred to be besieged in
 company with those who had injured him rather than to live as a citizen with you, who
 likewise had been wronged by them. And he remained as a participant in their government until that day on which you were on
 the point of attacking the walls of Athens; then he left the city, not because he had come
 to hate the present regime, but because he was afraid of the danger which threatened, as
 he later made evident. For when the Lacedaemonians came and the democracy was shut up in
 the Piraeus, By Pausanias, king of Sparta and his general,
 Lysander. again he fled from there and resided among the Boeotians; it is far
 more fitting, therefore, that his name should be enrolled in the list of the deserters
 than that he should be called one of the “exiles.” And although he has proved to be a man of such character by his conduct toward the people
 who occupied the Piraeus, toward those who remained in the city, and toward the whole
 state, he is not content to be on equal terms with the others, but seeks to be treated
 better than you, as if either he alone had suffered injury, or was the best of the
 citizens, or had met with the gravest misfortunes on your account, or had been the cause
 of the most numerous benefits to the city.