21.9 The Amnesty
<p>Both warring factions sent envoys to Sparta, and the Spartans sent a peace commission to Athens to mediate. The general terms of the agreement stipulated that everyone might return home except for the Thirty, the Eleven, and the Ten who had ruled in the oligarchy. The former rulers, however, and anyone else who feared reprisals might reside in Eleusis, where most of the former rulers had retired already, or they might undergo a judicial review to rehabilitate themselves if they had not acted maliciously. There was to be a general amnesty for all others.</p>
<p>According to the Amnesty, ordinary citizens would not be liable for crimes they might have committed, often under duress (but sometimes out of greed or vengefulness), under the rule of the Thirty. The people swore not to harbor grudges from past wrongdoing (<em>mē mnēsikakein</em>), to bury the hatchet. There was, however, one piece of unfinished business: the surviving oligarchs, holed up in the town of Eleusis, far from cooperating with the new government, started hiring mercenary soldiers to attack the Athenians. The new government of Athens gathered an army which marched against Eleusis (401 BC). When the leaders of the oligarchic army came out to negotiate, </p>
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