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Theramenes arose, and bade you entrust the city to thirty men, and apply the system propounded by Dracontides.1 But you, not withstanding your awkward plight, showed by your uproar that you would not do as he proposed for you realized that you had to choose between slavery and freedom in the Assembly that day.
1 Who himself became one of the Thirty.
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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