What is it, pray, that you fear, that you are in such 406
										B.C. excessive haste? Do you fear lest you
								will lose the right to put to death and set free anyone you please
								if you proceed in accordance with the law, but think that you will
								retain this right if you proceed in violation of the law, by the
								method which Callixeinus persuaded the Senate to report to the
								people, that is, by a single vote? Yes, but you might possibly be putting to death some one who is
								really innocent; and repentance afterwards—ah, remember how painful
								and unavailing it always is, and especially when one’s error has
								brought about a man’s death. You would do a monstrous thing if, after granting in the past to
									Aristarchus, In 411 B.C. Aristarchus helped to establish
									the short-lived oligarchical government of the Four
									Hundred. the destroyer of the democracy and afterwards
								the betrayer of Oenoe to your enemies the Thebans, a day in which to
								defend himself as he pleased, and allowing him all his other rights
								under the law,—if, I say, you shall now deprive the generals, who
								have done everything to your satisfaction, and have defeated the
								enemy, of these same rights. Let no such act be yours, men of Athens, but guard the laws, which
								are your own and above all else have made you supremely great, and
								do not try to do anything without their sanction. And now come back to the actual
								circumstances under which the mistakes are thought to have been
								committed by the generals. When, after winning the battle, they
								sailed in to the shore, Diomedon urged that they should one and all
								put out to sea in line and pick up the wreckage and the shipwrecked
								men, while Erasinides proposed that all should sail with the utmost
								speed against the enemy at Mytilene. But Thrasyllus said that both
									things 406 B.C. would be accomplished if
								they should leave some of the ships there and should sail with the
								rest against the enemy; and if this plan were decided upon, he advised that each of the
								generals, who were eight in number, should leave behind three ships
								from his own division, and that they should also leave the ten ships
								of the taxiarchs, the ten of the Samians, and the three of the
								nauarchs. These amount all told to forty-seven ships, four for each
								one of the lost vessels, which were twelve in number.