Hearing that sentence of death had been passed upon him and his companions, he said, ‘Let us show them, then, that we are alive,’ and turning to the Spartan side he started the Decelean war against the Athenians. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, chap. xxii. (202 D) and Aelian, xiii. 38; cf. also Polyaenus, Strategemata, i. 40. 6.