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 88 HISTORY OF GREECE. How many of the Four Hundr 3d oligarchs actually came to trial or were punished, we have no means of knowing ; but there is ground for believing that none were put to death except Anti- phon and Archeptolemus, perhaps also Aristarchus, the betrayer of GEnoe to the Boeotians. The latter is said to have been formally tiied and condemned: 1 though by what accident he afterwards came into the power of the Athenians, after having once effected his escape, we are not informed. The property of Peisander, he himself having escaped, was confiscated, and grant- ed either wholly or in part as a recompense to Apollodorus, one of the assassins of Phrynichus: 2 probably the property of the other conspicuous fugitive oligarchs was confiscated also. Poly- stratus, another of the Four Hundred, who had only become a member of that body a few days before its fall, was tried during absence, which absence his defenders afterwards accounted for, by saying that he had been wounded in the naval battle of Ere- tria, and heavily fined. It seems that each of the Four Hundred was called on to go through an audit and a trial of accountability, according to the practice general at Athens with magistrates going out of office. Such of them as did not appear to this trial were condemned to fine, to exile, or to have their names recorded as traitors : but most of those who did appear seem to have been acquitted ; partly, we are told, by bribes to the logistas, or auditing officers, though some were condemned either to fine or to partial political disability, along with those hoplites who had been the most marked partisans of the Four Hundred. 3 1 Xenoph. Hellenic, i, 7, 28. This is the natural meaning of the passage ; though it may also mean that a day for trial was named, but that Arislar- chus did not appear. Aristarchus may possibly hare been made prisoner in one of the engagements which took place between the garrison of Dekeleia and the Athenians. The Athenian exiles in a body established themselves at Dekeleia, and carried on constant war with the citizens at Athens : see Lysias, De Bonis Niciaa Fratris, Or. xviii, ch. 4, p. 604 : Pro Polystrato, Orat. xx, c. 7, p. 688 ; Andokides de Mysteriis, c. 17, p. 50. " Lysias, De Ole& Sacra, Or. vii, ch. ii, p. 263, Eeisk. 3 " Quadringentis ipsa dominatio fraudi non fuit ; imo qui cum Thcramene et Aristocrate steterant, in magno honore habiti sunt: omnibus autem ra tiones rcddendse fuerunt ; qui solum vertissent, proditorcs judicati sunt, nomina in publico proposita." (Wattenbach. De Qualringcntorum Athcnis Factione, p. 65.)