[20] I.e. may enjoy the senatorial stipend of a drachma a day = 9 3/4
pence.

[21] See Thuc. viii. 97, for a momentary realisation of that "duly
attempered compound of Oligarchy and Democracy" which Thucydides
praises, and which Theramenes here refers to. It threw the power
into the hands of the wealthier upper classes to the exclusion of
the {nautikos okhlos}. See Prof. Jowett, vol. ii. note, ad loc.
cit.

With these words he ceased, and the loud murmur of the applause which
followed marked the favourable impression produced upon the senate. It
was plain to Critias, that if he allowed his adversary's fate to be
decided by formal voting, Theramenes would escape, and life to himself
would become intolerable. Accordingly he stepped forward and spoke a
word or two in the ears of the Thirty. This done, he went out and gave
an order to the attendants with the daggers to stand close to the bar
in full view of the senators. Again he entered and addressed the
senate thus: "I hold it to be the duty of a good president, when he
sees the friends about him being made the dupes of some delusion, to
intervene. That at any rate is what I propose to do. Indeed our
friends here standing by the bar say that if we propose to acquit a
man so openly bent upon the ruin of the oligarchy, they do not mean to
let us do so. Now there is a clause in the new code forbidding any of
the Three Thousand to be put to death without your vote; but the
Thirty have power of life and death over all outside that list.
Accordingly," he proceeded, "I herewith strike this man, Theramenes,
off the list; and this with the concurrence of my colleagues. And
now," he continued, "we condemn him to death."