Alc. 10.1Hoc cum mōlīrētur peteretque ā Pharnabazō, ut ad rēgem mitterētur, eōdem tempore Critiās cēterīque tyrannī Athēniēnsium certōs hominēs ad Lȳsandrum in Asiam mīserant, quī eum certiōrem facerent, nisi Alcibiadem sustulisset, nihil eārum rērum fore ratum, quās ipse Athēnīs cōnstituisset: quārē, sī suās rēs gestās manēre vellet, illum persequerētur.While he was working at this and asking Pharnabazus to send him to the king, at the same time Critias and the other tyrants of the Athenians had sent reliable men to Lysander in Asia to inform him that unless he got rid of Alcibiades, none of the arrangements he himself had made at Athens would stand: therefore, if he wanted his achievements to last, he should hunt him down. Alc. 10.2Hīs Lacō rēbus commōtus statuit accūrātius sibi agendum cum Pharnabazō, huic ergō renūntiat quae rēgī cum Lacedaemoniīs convēnissent, nisi Alcibiadem vīvum aut mortuum sibi trādidisset.Stirred by this, the Spartan decided that he must deal more firmly with Pharnabazus; so he declares to him that what had been agreed between the king and the Spartans would be void unless he handed Alcibiades over to him alive or dead.
Alc. 10.3Nōn tulit hoc satrapēs et violāre clēmentiam quam rēgis opēs minuī māluit.The satrap could not hold out against this, and preferred to violate humanity rather than see the king's power diminished. Alc. 10.3Itaque mīsit Susamithrēn et Bagaeum ad Alcibiadem interficiendum, cum ille esset in Phrygiā iterque ad rēgem comparāret.So he sent Susamithres and Bagaeus to kill Alcibiades, while he was in Phrygia and preparing his journey to the king. Alc. 10.4Missī clam vīcīnitātī, in quā tum Alcibiadēs erat, dant negōtium ut eum interficiant.Those sent secretly charge the neighbourhood in which Alcibiades then was with the task of killing him. Alc. 10.4Illī cum ferrō aggredī nōn audērent, noctū ligna contulērunt circā casam eam, in quā quiēscēbat, eaque succendērunt, ut incendiō cōnficerent, quem manū superārī posse diffīdēbant.Since they did not dare to attack him with the sword, by night they piled wood around the cottage in which he was sleeping and set it alight, to destroy by fire one whom they had no confidence of overcoming by force. Alc. 10.5Ille autem ut sonitū flammae est excitātus, etsī gladius eī erat subductus, familiāris suī subālāre tēlum ēripuit.But when he was woken by the sound of the flames, although his sword had been stolen from him, he snatched the dagger that a friend of his carried under his arm.
Alc. 10.5Namque erat cum eō quīdam ex Arcadiā hospes, quī numquam discēdere voluerat.For there was with him a certain guest-friend from Arcadia, who had never been willing to leave him. Alc. 10.5Hunc sequī sē iubet et id quod in praesentiā vestīmentōrum fuit arripit.He orders him to follow, and snatches up whatever clothing was at hand. Alc. 10.5Hīs in ignem coniectīs flammae vim trānsiit.Throwing these onto the fire, he passed through the force of the flames. Alc. 10.6Quem ut barbarī incendium effūgisse vīdērunt, tēlīs ēminus missīs interfēcērunt caputque eius ad Pharnabazum rettulērunt.When the barbarians saw that he had escaped the fire, they killed him with missiles thrown from a distance and took his head back to Pharnabazus. Alc. 10.6At mulier, quae cum eō vīvere cōnsuērat, muliebrī suā veste contēctum aedificiī incendiō mortuum cremāvit, quod ad vīvum interimendum erat comparātum.But the woman who had been living with him covered his body with her own woman's clothing and cremated him in the fire of the building that had been prepared to destroy him alive. Alc. 10.6Sīc Alcibiadēs annōs circiter quadrāgintā nātus diem obiit suprēmum.So Alcibiades met his last day at about forty years of age.