Isocrates Areopagiticus 67

[67] And surely no one could find grounds to praise the mildness ¹ of the Thirty as against that of the people’s rule! For when the Thirty took over the city, by vote of the Assembly, ² they put to death fifteen hundred Athenians ³ without a trial and compelled more than five thousand to leave Athens and take refuge in the Piraeus , ⁴ whereas when the exiles overcame them and returned to Athens under arms, these put to death only the chief perpetrators of their wrongs and dealt so generously and so justly by the rest ⁵ that those who had driven the citizens from their homes fared no worse than those who had returned from exile.