The Athenian public, as the grief and anger prompted by the disaster cooled, came to regret their action, and for thousands of years historians and commentators have pointed to the incident as perhaps the greatest miscarriage of justice the city's government ever perpetrated.
O pobo ateniense, cando o pesar e a cólera provocada polo desastre arrefriáronse, chegaron a lamentar a súa acción, e durante miles de anos os historiadores e comentaristas destacaron o incidente como quizais o máis grande erro xudicial que o goberno da cidade perpetrou algunha vez.