Consequence
During the farewell dinner, he and his company got
drunk (all of them less than twenty years old). Past
midnight they took the roads with the laurel bushes,
ivy, guitars, and they decapitated the statues. Come
dawn he went away to Sicily. His trial took place while
he was away. They convicted him to death; then it was
the treason too and the defeat and the prisoners who
died in the quarries (some seven thousand) and
Sparta that received him with laurels. We knew well
the bitterness hiding in his arrogance. He only
missed Athens;
and Athens missed his beauty in the Agora and in
the Arena.
Manolis Aligizakis 