Among the captains who were left behind were both Thrasybulus and
								Theramenes, the man who accused the generals at the former meeting
								of the Assembly. And with the rest of the ships they planned to sail
								against the enemy’s fleet. Now what one of these acts did they not
								do adequately and well? It is but just, therefore, that those, on
								the one hand, who were detailed to go against the enemy should be
								held to account for their lack of success in dealing with the enemy,
								and that those, on the other hand, who were detailed to recover the
								shipwrecked, in case they did not do what the generals ordered,
								should be tried for not recovering them. This much, however, I can say in defence of both parties, that the
								storm absolutely prevented them from doing any of the things which
								the generals had planned. And as witnesses to this fact you have
								those who were saved by mere chance, among whom is one of our
								generals, who came through safely on a disabled ship, and whom they
								now bid you judge by the same vote (although at that time he needed
								to be picked up himself) by which you judge those who did not do
								what they 406 B.C. were ordered to do. Do not, then, men of Athens, in the face of your victory and your
								good fortune, act like men who are beaten and unfortunate, nor, in
								the face of heaven’s visitation, show yourselves unreasonable by
								giving a verdict of treachery instead of helplessness, since they
								found themselves unable on account of the storm to do what they had
								been ordered to do; nay, it would be far more just for you to honour
								the victors with garlands than, yielding to the persuasions of
								wicked men, to punish them with death. When Euryptolemus had thus spoken, he
								offered a resolution that the men be tried under the decree of
								Cannonus, each one separately; whereas the proposal of the Senate
								was to judge them all by a single vote. The vote being now taken as
								between these two proposals, they decided at first in favour of the
								resolution of Euryptolemus; but when Menecles interposed an
								objection under oath Apparently
									questioning the legality of Euryptolemus’ proposal. Under the
									law such an objection should have suspended the consideration of
									the matter before the Assembly, but in this case it seems to
									have had no such result. and a second vote was taken,
								they decided in favour of that of the Senate. After this they
								condemned the generals who took part in the battle, eight in all;
								and the six who were in Athens were put to death. And not long afterwards the Athenians repented, and they voted that
									complaints A προβολή was a complaint presented
									to the Assembly, alleging an offence against the state. The
									Assembly, acting as a grand jury, might then hold the accused
									for trial before a court. be brought against any who had
								deceived the people, that they furnish bondsmen men until such time
								as they should be brought to 406 B.C. trial, and
								that Callixeinus be included among them. Complaints were brought
								against four others also, and they were put into confinement by
								their bondsmen. But when there broke out afterwards a factional
								disturbance, in the course of which Cleophon A popular leader of the democratic party. was
								put to death, these men escaped, before being brought to trial;
								Callixeinus indeed returned, at the time when the Piraeus party
								returned to the city, i.e., in the
									restoration which followed the overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants
										( Xen. Hell.
									2.4.39-43 ). but he was hated by everybody and died
								of starvation.