Now it is worth observing how the witnesses, in testifying for these men, accuse themselves: they take you to be singularly forgetful and simple, if they believe that by means of you, the people, they will save the Thirty with impunity, when owing to Eratosthenes and his partners in power it was dangerous even to conduct funerals of the dead.
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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