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.