_Against Pancleon_ (Or. xxiii.), date uncertain.—Pancleon, accused on some unknown charge, and supposed by the prosecutor to be a _metoecus_, has put in a plea that he is a Plataean citizen and therefore not amenable to the law under which he was indicted. He turns out after all to be a runaway slave. These last two speeches consist almost entirely of narrative. _Spurious or Doubtful Speeches_ _Against Andocides_ (Or. vi.), 399 B.C.—It is generally believed that this speech is not by Lysias, the most serious argument being that the writer of it is a blunderer. As Jebb points out, he makes at least three damaging admissions calculated seriously to injure his own case. It may, however, really be a speech delivered against Andocides. It contains some statements which do not agree with Andocides’ own admissions, but, as we have seen, it cannot be proved that Andocides was always veracious. On the ground of general agreement with Andocides’ statements we may believe that it was composed by some contemporary orator, and not, as has been sometimes asserted, by a late Sophist. It may have been actually delivered at the trial of Andocides in 399 B.C. * * * * * _Eroticus._—Phaedrus, in the dialogue of Plato which bears his name, reads aloud a speech of Lysias which Socrates criticizes. If Plato could be taken literally, we should believe that what is read was the authentic work of Lysias; but Plato is if anything too emphatic in his attempts to produce this illusion, and most readers will probably be left with the impression that Plato is following his usual custom; he tries to give his myths the solemnity of fact, and what he produces here is an imitation too close to be called a parody. We may compare Plato’s reproduction of Aspasia’s oration in the _Menexenus_. * * * * * The speech _To his Companions_ (Or. viii.) cannot reasonably be attributed to Lysias, and indeed is so trivial that it can hardly be the work of any self-respecting forger. It is probably to be regarded as a declamatory exercise. The speaker complains that his friends have slandered him by asserting that he forced his company on them; they have sold him an unsound horse, and accused him of inducing others to slander them. He therefore abjures their friendship. * * * * * Extracts from six lost speeches are preserved by quotation in various writers: _Against Cinesias_ (Athenaeus, xiii. 551 D); _Against Tisis_ (Dion., _de Demos._, ch. xi.); _For Pherenicus_ (Dion., _de Isaeo_, ch. vi.); _Against the Sons of Hippocrates_ (_ibid._); _Against Archebiades_ (_ibid._, ch. x.); _Against Aeschines_ (Athenaeus, xiii., 611 E-612 C).[152] The fragments of other speeches, in Suidas, Harpocration, and others, are negligible. CHAPTER V ISAEUS § 1