I have nobody, gentlemen, whom I can put up here to plead on our behalf: for some of my kinsmen, after giving proof of their valor in promoting the greatness of the city, have perished in the war; others, in the defence of the democracy and of your freedom, have drunk hemlock under the Thirty.
On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.
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