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[16] With these conclusions I took to flight, while they were keeping guard over the courtyard door:1 there were three doors2 for me to pass through, and they all chanced to be open. I reached the house of Archeneos the ship-captain, and sent him into town to inquire after my brother: on his return he told me that Eratosthenes had arrested him in the street and taken him off to prison.

1 The front door or gate on the street, opening into the courtyard.

2 Probably these divided the courtyard from the inner court, the inner court from the garden, and the garden from the back street.

Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.

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