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 THE THIRT1 DISARM Tilt ^tl'IZEXS. 247 uid examination of arms to all the hoplites in Athens. The Threa Thousand were drawn up in arms all together in the maiket- place ; but the remaining hoplites were disseminated in small scattered companies and in different places. After the review was over, these scattered companies went home to their meal, leaving their arms piled at the various places of muster. But the adherents of the Thirty, having been forewarned and kept together, were sent at the proper moment, along with the Lace- daemonian mercenaries, to seize the deserted arms, which were deposited under the custody of Kallibius in the acropolis. All the hoplites in Athens, except the Three Thousand and the remaining adherents of the Thirty, were disarmed by this crafty manoeuvre, in spite of the fruitless remonstrance of Theramenes. 1 Kritias and his colleagues, now relieved from all fear either of Theramenes, or of any other internal opposition, gave loose, more unsparingly than ever, to their malevolence and rapacity, put- ting to death both many of their private enemies, and many rich victims for the purpose of spoliation. A list of suspected persons was drawn up, in which each of their adherents was allowed to insert such names as he chose, and from which the victims were generally taken. 2 Among informers, who thus gave in names for destruction, Batrachus and .ZEschylides 3 stood conspicuous. The thirst of Kritias for plunder, as well as for bloodshed, only in- creased by gratification ; 4 and it was not merely to pay their mercenaries, but also to enrich themselves separately, that the Thirty stretched everywhere their murderous agency, which now mowed down metics as well as citizens. Theognis and Peison, two of the Thirty, affirmed that many of these metics were hostile 1 Xenoph. Hcllcn. ii, 3, 20, 41; compare Lysias, Orat. xii, cont. Eratosth. sect. 41. 1 Xenoph. Ilellen. ii, 3, 21 ; Isokrates adv. Euthynum, sect. 5, p. 401 ; Iokr;itcs cont. Kullimach. sect. 23, p. 375 ; Lysias, Or. xxv, A^a. KaraA. 'AjroA. sect. 21, p. 173. The two passages of Isokrates sufficiently designate what this Hit, or KQTU- 2oyof, must have been ; but the name by which he calls it 6 //erd Avouvtipov (or n.eiffuvApov) KaruXoyof is not easy to explain. 4 Xenoph. Mcmor. i, 2, 12. Kptriaf jiev vup TUV if ry 6%.iyapip tkrirric rarof T KO>' SiaioTaroc iycvETO, etc
 * Lysias, Orat. vi, cont. Andokid. sect. 46 ; Or. xii, cont. Eratosth. sect. 49.