1When the whole city had gone down to the Piraeus to meet them, everyone's eagerness to see Alcibiades was so great that the crowd flocked to his trireme as if he had come alone. 2For the people were convinced that both their earlier misfortunes and their present successes had come about through his doing. 2So they blamed themselves both for the army lost in Sicily and for the Spartans' victories, because they had driven such a man out of the state. 2Nor did they seem to think so without reason. 2For after he had begun to command the army, the enemy had been no match for them either on land or at sea.
3When he stepped off the ship, although Theramenes and Thrasybulus had held the same command and had come into the Piraeus with him, yet everyone escorted him alone, and, a thing that had never happened before except to victors at Olympia, he was presented on all sides with laurel wreaths and ribbons. 3Weeping, he received such goodwill from his fellow citizens, remembering the bitterness of former times. 4When he came into the city, he called an assembly and spoke in such a way that no one was so hard-hearted as not to weep at his misfortune and show himself hostile to those through whose doing he had been driven from his country, just as if some other people, and not the very people who were then weeping, had condemned him for sacrilege.
5Accordingly his property was restored to him by the state, and those same Eumolpid priests who had cursed him were forced to lift the curse again, and those pillars on which the curse had been written were hurled into the sea.