Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 43

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Now his life in the interval I will here pass over: but when the sea-fight¹ took place, with the disaster that befell the city, and while we still had a democracy (at this point they started the sedition), five men were set up as overseers² by the so-called club men, to be organizers of the citizens as well as chiefs of the conspirators and opponents of your common wealth; and among these were Eratosthenes and Critias.

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.) — 43 focus

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Μάρτυρες

τὸν μὲν τοίνυν μεταξὺ βίον αὐτοῦ παρήσω· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡ ναυμαχία καὶ ἡ συμφορὰ τῇ πόλει ἐγένετο, δημοκρατίας ἔτι οὔσης, ὅθεν τῆς στάσεως ἦρξαν, πέντε ἄνδρες ἔφοροι κατέστησαν ὑπὸ τῶν καλουμένων ἑταίρων, συναγωγεῖς μὲν τῶν πολιτῶν ἄρχοντες δὲ τῶν συνωμοτῶν, ἐναντία δὲ τῷ ὑμετέρῳ πλήθει πράττοντες· ὧν Ἐρατοσθένης καὶ Κριτίας ἦσαν.

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

1. The battle of Aegospotami , in 405 B.C.

2. In imitation of the Ephors, who were the five chief magistrates of Sparta .

Lysias Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself 43

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

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