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Now I, gentlemen of the jury, never suffered any misfortune during that time,1 either private or public, which could lead me, through eagerness to be relieved of present ills, to court a change in our system. I have equipped a warship five times, fought in four sea-battles, contributed to many war levies, and performed my other public services as amply as any citizen.
1 The six years between the restoration of the democracy in 410 B.C. and the tyranny of the Thirty in 404 B.C.
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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