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This plot of ground belonged to Peisander; but when his property was confiscated, Apollodorus of Megara had it as a gift from the people1 and cultivated it for some time, until, shortly before the Thirty,2 Anticles bought it from him and let it out. I bought it from Anticles when peace had been made.3
1 Peisander was a leader in the revolution of the Four Hundred （411 B.C.） and his property was fortified on the counter-revolution of the Five Thousand in the same year; Apollodorus was rewarded for taking part in the assassination of Phrynichus, another of the Four Hundred.
2 404 B.C.
3 After the fall of the Thirty and on the intervention of Sparta, 403 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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