Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 30

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[30] Besides, it was not in his house, but in the street, where he was free to leave both him and the decrees of the Thirty intact,¹ that he apprehended him and took him off to prison. You feel anger against everyone who entered your houses in search either of yourselves or of some member of your household:

Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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Against Eratosthenes (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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κατὰ Ερατοσθένους τοῦ γενομένου τῶν τριάκοντα, ὃν αὐτὸς εἶπε Λυσίας Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 30 focus

[30] καὶ μὲν δὴ οὐκ ἐν τῇ οἰκία ἀλλʼ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, σῴζειν τε αὐτὸν καὶ τὰ τούτοις ἐψηφισμένα παρόν,¹ συλλαβὼν ἀπήγαγεν. ὑμεῖς δὲ πᾶσιν² ὀργίζεσθε, ὅσοι εἰς τὰς οἰκίας ἦλθον τὰς ὑμετέρας ζήτησιν ποιούμενοι ἢ ὑμῶν ἢ τῶν ὑμετέρων τινός.

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Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself

1. i.e., he could have let him escape there without any breach of the orders of the Thirty; but the people feel anger even against those who sought their victims indoors, where there was little possibility of conniving at their escape.

Lysias Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself 30

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