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 CONDUCT OF ALKIt-iADES. 155 eumstance only raised new matter for dissatisfaction ox a graver character. If Antiochus had been disobedient, if, besides disc- bedience, he had displayed a childish vanity and an utter neglect of all military precautions, who was it that had chosen him for deputy ; and that too against all Athenian precedent, putting the pilot, a paid officer of the ship, over the heads of the trierarchs who paid their pilots, and served at their own cost ? It was Al- kibiades who placed Antiochus in this grave and responsible situation, a personal favorite, an excellent convivial companion, but destitute of all qualities befitting a commander. And this turned attention on another point of the character of Alkibiades, his habits of excessive self-indulgence and dissipation. The loud murmurs of the camp charged him with neglecting the interests of the service for enjoyments with jovial parties and Ionian women, and with admitting to his confidence those who best con- tributed to the amusement of these chosen hours. 1 It was in the camp at Samos that this general indignation against Alkibiades first arose, and was from thence transmitted formally to Athens, by the mouth of Thrasybulus son of Thra- son, 2 not the eminent Thrasybulus, son of Lykus, who has been already often spoken of in this history, and will be so again. There came at the same time to Athens the complaints from Kyme, against the unprovoked aggression and plunder of that place by AlkibiadSs ; and seemingly complaints from other places besides. 3 It was even urged as accusation against him, that he 1 Plutarch. Alkib. c. 36. lie recounts, in the tenth chapter of the same biography, an anecdote, describing the manner in which Antiochus first won the favor of Alkibiade's, then a young man, by catching a tame quail, which had escaped from his bosom. 147, pp. 221, 222, of the Corp. Inscr. of Bocckh) as one of the Hellenota- miae in the year 410 B.C. He is described by his Deme as Butades; he is probably enough the father of this Thrasybulus. ffrpanp 0cpo/ufi>of, etc. Diodor. xiii, 73. t-yfvovro ds Kal u?.?iai 6ta3o?.al /iar' ai>roi), etc. Plutarch. Alkib. c. 36. One of the remaining speeches of Lysias (Orat. xxi, ' tiaf ) is delivered by the trierach in this fleet, on board of whose ship AIki Wade's himself chose to sail. This trierarch complains of Alkibiades ai
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