The End of the Persecutors

“But why should I dwell any longer on these sad events, and on the grief they spread over the whole world? Those who committed this terrible crime are gone. They came to a miserable end, and have been handed over to unending punishment in the depths of the world below. They fought one another in civil war, and have left behind them neither name nor family. And surely this disaster would never have come upon them if that ungodly answer of the Pythian oracle had not held them under its delusion. [a]