History of the Peloponnesian War

On that day, then, they permitted those who were not privy to their design to [*](ἀπελθεῖν,] i.e. after a sort of morning parade, as Arnold expresses, leaving their arms piled in some open space, to be ready in case of any alarm. ) go home, as usual; while to those who were in the conspiracy directions were given to wait about quietly, not just by the arms, but at some little distance; and if any one should oppose what was doing, to seize the arms and not suffer it.

Moreover, some Andrians and Tenians, and three hundred Carystians, with some of the Aeginetan colonists, whom the Athenians had sent to occupy that island, had come for this very purpose with their own arms; to whom directions had already been given on this subject.