This time fortune favored the oppressed. Lysander, the Spartan Admiral sympathetic to The Thirty, was preparing to defend their interests when the Spartan king Pausanias overruled his attack fearing that Lysander was becoming too powerful. He also believed that blind support for the ultra-conservatives was a mistake. After a skirmish with the rebels, Pausanias decided to use them to broker a peace with Athens. In the end a new government was formed and The Thirty were banished to Eleusis.
One year after the Spartan/Athenian treaty created The Thirty, it was gone – destroyed by its oppression and ruthlessness. This same model had been employed by the Spartans in other Poleis, typically with a ten man oligarchy, but the notion of a Spartan garrison backing a group of local henchman did not go down well with the oppressed any place where it was tried.