Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Translations into English
31. Accordingly they desired him, gentlemen of the jury, to hand in more
names, so strongly determined was the Boule to do evil, and he himself
did not seem to them to tell all the truth. Thus, voluntarily, he gave in
all these names, as they put no restraint on him at all. 32. When the
assembly was held in the theatre at Munychia some were so very anxious
that he should also testify in the popular assembly against the Strategi
and Taxiarchs (but as for the others the testimony in the senate was
enough) that they led him there into the assembly. Now answer me,
Agoratus. But I do not think you should deny what you did against all the
Athenians.
TESTIMONY.
33. He himself confesses it, but nevertheless the votes of the people
shall be read to you.
DECREES.
That this man Agoratus wrote down the names of these men, some in the
senate and some in the assembly, and that he is their murderer I think
you are well aware. That he was the cause of all the evils which befell
the state and is not worthy to be pitied by a single one, I think I can
show you in a few words. 34. For when these were arrested and put in
prison then Lysander sailed into your harbors, and your ships were
surrendered to the Lacedaemonians, and the walls were destroyed, and the
government of the Thirty established, and indeed what evil was not done
against the state? 35. When, therefore, the Thirty were established, they
immediately tried these men in the senate, but the people voted in the
court before two thousand. Now read the vote to me.
DECREE.
36. If they had been tried in the court, they could readily have been
saved. For you all knew in what evil the state was, although you were not
able to bring aid. But the fact was, they brought them into the Boule
before the Thirty. And you know what a farce the trial was. 37. The
Thirty sat on the seats where the Prytanes are now. Two tables were
placed in front of the Thirty. It was necessary to deposit the vote, not
in the urns, but in plain sight on the tables, the condemning vote on the
further one .... so how could any one of them be saved? 38. And with one
vote all that came into the council chamber to be tried before the Thirty
were sentenced to death, and no one except this man Agoratus did they
acquit; and they acquitted him as a doer of good. But that you may know
how many were put to death by this man, I desire to read their names to
you.
LIST.
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