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 302 HISTORY OF GREECE. had made themselves partisans in every species of flagitious crime which could possibly be imagined to exasperate the feelings of the exiles. The latter, on returning, saw before them men who had handed in their relations to be put to death without trial, who had seized upon and enjoyed their property, who had expelled them all from the city, and a large portion of them even from Attica ; and who had held themselves in mastery not merely by the overthrow of the constitution, but also by inviting and sub- sidizing foreign guards. Such atrocities, conceived and ordered by the Thirty, had been executed by the aid, and for the joint benefit, as Kritias justly remarked, 1 of those "occupants of the city whom the exiles found on returning. Now Thrasybulus, Anytus, and the rest of these exiles, saw their property all pil- laged and appropriated by others during the few months of their absence : we may presume that their lands which had proba- bly not been sold, but granted to individual members or partisans of the Thirty 2 were restored to them ; but the movable prop- erty could not be reclaimed, and the losses to which they remained subject were prodigious. The men who had caused and profited by these losses 3 ^ often with great brutality towards the wives and families of the exiles, as we know by the case of 1 Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 4, 9. 2 Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 4, 1. TIJOV 6e K TUV xupiuv (oi TpiuKov~a) Iv avrol Kal ol <[>iAoi Toi>f TOVTUV aypove exoisv. 8 Isokrates cont. Kallimach. Or. xviii, sect. 30. of fiev Kal "AvvTOf, [teyiaTOv JJ.EV dvvufievoi TUV ev ri) KOAEI, unearEpjjfifvoi xpn/^oTuv, eldoTs^ 6e roOf aTroypa^'avraf, o/iwf oil avTolf <5i/ca? Aay^dveiv ovSe ftvijaiKOKelv, uAA' d Kal nepl TUV v (iSik'kov eTepuv dvvavrai diaTrpuTTEcrdai, uM? ovv Trept ye TUV h> ~aif loov ex lv ro '5 uTiTioif agiovaiv. On the other hand, the young Alkibiades (in the Oral, xvi, of Isokrates, De Bigis, sect. 56) is made to talk about others recovering their property: TUV a)JXuv KofiL&fievuv rug ovalaf. My statement in the text reconciles these two. The young Alkibiades goes on to state that the people had passed a vote to grant compensation to him for the confiscation of his father's property, hut that the power of his enemies had disappointed him >{ it. We may well doubt whether such vote ever railly passed. It appears, however, that Batrachus, one of the chief informers who brought in. victims for the Thirty, thought it prudent to live afterwards out of Attica (Lysias cont. Andokid. Or. vi, sect. 46), though he would have wen legally protected by the amnesty.