1When because of these achievements he alone flourished above all in the state, he fell into the same envy as his father and the other leading men of Athens: for by the votes of potsherds he was punished with ten years' exile. 2The Athenians repented of this deed sooner than he did himself. 2For when he had bravely given way to the envy of his ungrateful fellow citizens, and the Spartans had declared war on the Athenians, a longing for his well-known valour at once followed. 3So in the fifth year after he had been banished he was recalled to his country. 3Because he enjoyed ties of hospitality with the Spartans, and thought it better for the states of Greece to settle their disputes among themselves by law than to contend by arms, he set out for Sparta of his own accord and brought about peace between the two most powerful states.
4Not very long afterwards, sent as general to Cyprus with two hundred ships, when he had conquered the greater part of the island, he fell ill and died while besieging the town of Citium.