Lysias Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself 36

[36] And how monstrous it would be, when you have punished with death the commanders who won the victory at sea ¹ —they said that a storm prevented them from picking up the men in the water, but you felt that you must make them give satisfaction to the I valor of the dead—if these men, who as ordinary persons used their utmost endeavors towards your defeat in the sea-fights, ² and then, once established in power, admit that of their own free will they put to death many of the citizens without a trial,—if these men, I say, and their children are not to be visited by you with the extreme penalty of the law!