Alc. 7.1Haec Alcibiadī laetitia nōn nimis fuit diūturna.This joy of Alcibiades did not last very long. Alc. 7.1Nam cum eī omnēs essent honōrēs dēcrētī tōtaque rēs pūblica domī bellīque trādita, ut ūnīus arbitriō gererētur, et ipse postulāsset ut duo sibi collēgae darentur, Thrasybūlus et Adīmantus, neque id negātum esset, classe in Asiam profectus, quod apud Cȳmēn minus ex sententiā rem gesserat, in invidiam recidit: nihil enim eum nōn efficere posse dūcēbant.For when all honours had been voted to him and the whole state had been handed over, at home and in war, to be managed by the will of one man, and he himself had asked that two colleagues should be given him, Thrasybulus and Adimantus, and this had not been refused, he set out with the fleet for Asia, and because he had fought less successfully than hoped at Cyme, he fell back into disfavour: for they thought there was nothing he could not achieve. Alc. 7.2Ex quō fīēbat ut omnia minus prosperē gesta culpae tribuerent, cum aut eum neglegenter aut malitiōse fēcisse loquerentur, sīcut tum accidit: nam corruptum ā rēge capere Cȳmēn nōluisse arguēbant.The result was that they blamed him for everything that went less well, saying that he had acted either carelessly or with ill intent, as happened then: for they charged that he had been bribed by the king and had not wanted to take Cyme.
Alc. 7.3Itaque huic maximē putāmus malō fuisse nimiam opīniōnem ingeniī atque virtūtis: timēbātur enim nōn minus quam dīligēbātur, nē secundā fortūnā magnīsque opibus ēlātus tyrannidem concupīsceret.So we think that what most harmed him was the excessive opinion of his talent and valour: for he was feared no less than he was loved, lest, elated by good fortune and great resources, he should covet tyranny. Alc. 7.3Quibus rēbus factum est ut absentī magistrātum abrogārent et alium in eius locum substituerent.As a result they stripped him of his command in his absence and put another in his place. Alc. 7.4Id ille ut audīvit, domum revertī nōluit et sē Pactyēn contulit ibique tria castella commūniit, Ornōs, Bizanthēn, Neontīchos, manūque collēctā prīmus Graecae cīvitātis in Thraeciam introiit, glōriōsius exīstimāns barbarōrum praedā locuplētārī quam Grāiōrum.When he heard this, he refused to return home and took himself to Pactye, and there he fortified three strongholds, Ornoi, Bizanthe and Neontichos; and, gathering a band of men, he was the first man of a Greek state to enter Thrace, thinking it more glorious to enrich himself with plunder from barbarians than from Greeks.
Alc. 7.5Quā ex rē crēverat cum fāmā tum opibus, magnamque amīcitiam sibi cum quibusdam rēgibus Thraeciae pepererat.From this he had grown both in fame and in wealth, and had won himself great friendship with some of the kings of Thrace.