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28 HISTORY OF GREECE. purpose. But he represented the demagogic and accusatcry eloquence of the democracy, the check upon official delinquency so that he served as a common object of antipathy to Athenian and Samian oligarchs. Some of the Athenian partisans, headed by Charminus, one of the generals, in concert with the Samian conspirators, seized Hyperbolus and put him to death, seemingly with some other victims at the same time. 1 But though these joint assassinations served as a pledge to each section of the conspirators for the fidelity of the other, in respect to farther operations, they at the same time gave warning to opponents. Those leading men at Samos who remained at- tached to the democracy, looking abroad for defence against the coming attack, made earnest appeal to Leon and Diomedon, the two generals most recently arrived from Athens in substitution for Phrynichus and Skironides, men sincerely devoted to the democracy, and adverse to all oligarchical change, as well as to the trierarch Thrasyllus, to Thrasybulus, son of Lykus, then serving as an hoplite, and to many others of the pronounced democrats and patriots in the Athenian armament. They made appeal not simply in behalf of their own personal safety and of their own democracy, now threatened by conspirators of whom a portion were Athenians, but also on grounds of public interest to Athens ; since, if Samos became oligarchized, its sympathy with the Athenian democracy and its fidelity to the alliance would be at an end. At this moment the most recent events which had occurred at Athens, presently to be told, were not 1 Thucyd. viii, 73. Kat 'TCTrepj3o?t.6v re Tiva TUV 'A-dqvaiuv, uv&puirov, uGTpaKiafievov ov did. SvvafiEue KCU u^tufia-of $6/3av d/l/la 6ia no- vr/plav teal aiGxvvriv TT)$ Tro/leuf , uTTOKTeivovai peril Xappivov TS ivbf TUV GTSO- TTiyuv KO.L TIVUV TUV vapd atyiaiv 'A'&rivaiuv, maTiv 6idovTE avToif, nat eT 1 ai>Tuv ToiaiiTa vv cirpa fa v, Tolf re Trheioaiv I presume that the words, d/lAa TOIOVTU %vvirpa!-av, must mean that other persons were assassinated along with Hyperholus. The incorrect manner in which Mr. Mitford recounts these proceedings at Samos has been properly commented on by Dr. Thirlwall ( Hist. Gr. ch. xxviii, vol. iv, p. 30). It is the more sm-prising, since the phrase fieTti Xap- ftivov, which Mr. Mitford has misunderstood, is explained in a spec/al note of Duker.