who, although among the most prominent members of the government (being afraid, as they said, of the army at Samos, and most especially of Alcibiades, and also lest the envoys whom they had sent to Lacedaemon might do the state some harm without the authority of the people), without insisting on objections to the excessive concentration of power in a few hands, yet urged that the Five Thousand must be shown to exist not merely in name but in reality, and the constitution placed upon a fairer basis. But this was merely their political cry;
Baina erregimen zirriborro hori hitz hutsak baino ez ziren, zeren gehienek, handinahikeria pertsonalek eraginda, demokraziatik sortutako oligarkiak porrot egitera hain zuzen ere eramaten duten jarrera motak hartzen baitzituzten, behingoan guztiek nahi dutelako denak berdinak barik, lehenengoak, alboan beste inor ez dutenak, izatea baino.