[318] Have they not taunted the most illustrious of the Athenians—the men who were the best able to benefit the city—with oligarchical and Lacedaemonian sympathies,[171] and never ceased until they have driven them to become in fact what they were charged with being?[172] Have they not by ill-treating our allies, by lodging false complaints against them,[173] by stripping the best of them of their possessions—have they not so disaffected them that they have revolted against us and craved the friendship and alliance of the Lacedaemonians?