It was then, in the archonship of Socratidas,The archonship of Socratidas fell in 374-373 B.C. in the month Munichion,Munichion corresponds to the latter half of April and the prior half of May. when the defendant Timotheus was about to sail on his second expedition and was already in the Peiraeus on the point of putting to sea, that, being in want of money, he came to my father in the port and urged him to lend him one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols, declaring that he needed that additional sum; and he bade him give the money to his treasurer Antimachus, who at that time managed everything for him.

It was Timotheus who borrowed the money from my father, and who bade him give it to his treasurer Antimachus, but the one who received the money from Phormio at the bank was Autonomus, who throughout all that time served as secretary to Antimachus.

When, therefore, the money was paid out, the bank recorded as debtor Timotheus, who had requested the loan, but made a memorandum in the name of Antimachus, to whom Timotheus had ordered the money to be paid, and also named Autonomus, whom Antimachus had sent to the bank to receive the money, the amount being one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols. The first loan, then, which Timotheus contracted at the time of his going to sea, when he was serving as general the second time, was for this amount.

Again, when you had removed him from his command as general because he failed to sail round the Peloponnesus, and he had been given over to the popular assembly for trial under a very heavy charge, when he was being prosecuted by Callistratus and Iphicrates,Important figures in the political life of Athens. The former was an orator, the latter one of the generals. men of power both in action and in speech, and they and their fellow-pleaders so influenced your minds by their accusations against him

that you condemned and put to death Antimachus, his treasurer and a man most devoted to him,—yes, and confiscated his property; while Timotheus himself, thanks to the intercession of all his friends and relatives, and also of Alcetas and Jason,Alcetas was king of the Molossi in Epeirus, Jason tyrant of Pherae in Thessaly. With both of these men Timotheus had formed connections while in command of the fleet. who were allies of yours, you were reluctantly induced to pardon, but you deposed him from his command;—