Alc. 4.1Hōc crīmine in contiōne ab inimīcīs compellābātur.On this charge he was attacked by his enemies in the assembly. Alc. 4.1Sed īnstābat tempus ad bellum proficīscendī.But the time for setting out to the war was pressing. Alc. 4.1Id ille intuēns neque ignōrāns cīvium suōrum cōnsuētūdinem postulābat, sī quid dē sē agī vellent, potius dē praesente quaestiō habērētur, quam absēns invidiae crīmine accūsārētur.Seeing this, and not unaware of the habits of his fellow citizens, he demanded that, if they wished to take any action about him, the inquiry should be held while he was present, rather than that he should be accused in his absence on a charge born of envy. Alc. 4.2Inimīcī vērō eius quiēscendum in praesentī, quia nocērī eī nōn posse intellegēbant, et illud tempus exspectandum dēcrēvērunt, quō classis exīsset, ut absentem aggrederentur, itaque fēcērunt.His enemies, however, decided that they must keep quiet for the present, because they realised he could not be harmed, and wait for the time when the fleet had sailed, so as to attack him in his absence; and so they did.
Alc. 4.3Nam postquam in Siciliam eum pervēnisse crēdidērunt, absentem, quod sacra violāsset, reum fēcērunt.For after they believed that he had reached Sicily, they indicted him in his absence for having profaned the sacred rites. Alc. 4.3Quā dē rē cum eī nūntius ā magistrātū in Siciliam missus esset, ut domum ad causam dīcendam redīret, essetque in magnā spē prōvinciae bene administrandae, nōn pārēre nōluit et in trirēmem, quae ad eum erat dēportandum missa, ascendit.When a messenger had been sent to him in Sicily by the magistrates about this, ordering him to return home to plead his case, and he was in great hope of conducting his command successfully, he was not unwilling to obey, and boarded the trireme which had been sent to bring him back. Alc. 4.4Hāc Thūriōs in Ītaliam pervectus, multa sēcum reputāns dē immoderātā cīvium suōrum licentiā crūdēlitāteque ergā nōbilēs, ūtilissimum ratus impendentem ēvītāre tempestātem, clam sē ab custōdibus subdūxit et inde prīmum Ēlidem, Dein Thēbās vēnit.Carried in it to Thurii in Italy, reflecting much on the unbridled licence of his fellow citizens and their cruelty towards the nobles, and thinking it most advantageous to avoid the storm that hung over him, he secretly slipped away from his guards and went from there first to Elis, then to Thebes.
Alc. 4.5Postquam autem sē capitis damnātum bonīs pūblicātīs audīvit, et, id quod numquam anteā ūsū vēnerat, Eumolpidās sacerdōtēs ā populō coāctōs ut sē dēvovērent, eiusque dēvōtiōnis quō testātior esset memoria, exemplum in pilā lapideā incīsum esse positum in pūblicō, Lacedaemonem dēmigrāvit.But after he heard that he had been condemned to death and his property confiscated, and that, a thing which had never happened before, the Eumolpid priests had been forced by the people to curse him, and that, so that the record of that curse might be the better attested, a copy carved on a stone pillar had been set up in public, he moved to Sparta. Alc. 4.6Ibi, ut ipse praedicāre cōnsuērat, nōn adversus patriam, sed inimīcōs suōs bellum gessit, quī eīdem hostēs essent cīvitātī: nam cum intellegerent sē plūrimum prōdesse posse reī pūblicae, ex eā ēiēcisse plūsque īrae suae quam ūtilitātī commūnī pāruisse.There, as he himself used to declare, he waged war not against his country but against his personal enemies, who were also enemies of the state: for though they understood that he could be of the greatest service to the commonwealth, they had driven him out of it and had obeyed their own anger more than the common good.
Alc. 4.7Itaque huius cōnsiliō Lacedaemoniī cum Persē rēge amīcitiam fēcērunt, Dein Decelēam in Atticā mūniērunt praesidiōque ibi perpetuō positō in obsidiōne Athēnās tenuērunt.So on his advice the Spartans made friendship with the Persian king, then fortified Decelea in Attica and, stationing a permanent garrison there, kept Athens under siege. Alc. 4.7Eiusdem operā Iōniam ā societāte āvertērunt Athēniēnsium.Through his efforts too they turned Ionia away from its alliance with the Athenians. Alc. 4.7Quō factō multō superiōrēs bellō esse coepērunt.After this they began to be much superior in the war.