After your return from Peiraeus February 403. you resolved to let bygones be bygones, in spite of the opportunity for revenge. You considered the safety of 
 Athens of more importance than the settlement of private scores; so both sides, you decided, were to forget the past. Accordingly, you elected a commission of twenty to govern 
 Athens until a fresh code of laws had been authorized; during the interval the code of Solon and the statutes of Draco were to be in force.