Lysias, Before the Council: In Defense of Mantitheus at His Scrutiny, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 4

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Our father, before the disaster at the Hellespont ,¹ had sent us abroad to live at the court of Satyrus, on the Pontus .² We were not residing in Athens either when the walls were being demolished or when the constitution was being changed.³ We came here five days before the people at Phyle returned to the Peiraeus.⁴

Before the Council: In Defense of Mantitheus at His Scrutiny. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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In Defense of Mantitheus (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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ἐν βουλῇ Μαντιθέῳ δοκιμαζομένῳ ἀπολογία Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 4 focus

[4] ἡμᾶς γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ πρὸ τῆς ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ συμφορᾶς ὡς Σάτυρον τὸν ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ διαιτησομένους ἐξέπεμψε, καὶ οὔτε τῶν τειχῶν καθαιρουμένων ἐπεδημοῦμεν¹ οὔτε μεθισταμένης τῆς πολιτείας, ἀλλʼ ἤλθομεν πρὶν τοὺς ἀπὸ Φυλῆς εἰς τὸν Πειραιᾶ κατελθεῖν πρότερον πένθʼ ἡμέραις.

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Before the Council: In Defense of Mantitheus at His Scrutiny

1. At Aegospotami , 405 B.C.

2. At Panticapaeum in the east corner of the Tauric Chersonese ( Crimea ), capital of the Kingdom of Bosphorus, which exported corn to Athens .

3. In the spring of 404 B.C.

4. In May, 403 B.C.

Lysias Before the Council: In Defense of Mantitheus at His Scrutiny 4

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