and in festivals of the fairest: we have been companions in the
chorus, the school, the army. We have braved a thousand dangers with
you by land and sea in behalf of our common safety, our common
liberty. By the gods of our fathers, by the gods of our mothers, by
the hallowed names of kinship, intermarriage, comradeship, those three
bonds which knit the hearts of so many of us, bow in reverence before
God and man, and cease to sin against the land of our fathers: cease
to obey these most unhallowed Thirty, who for the sake of private gain
have in eight months slain almost more men than the Peloponnesians
together in ten years of warfare. See, we have it in our power to live
as citizens in peace; it is only these men, who lay upon us this most
foul burthen, this hideous horror of fratricidal war, loathed of God
and man. Ah! be well assured, for these men slain by our hands this
day, ye are not the sole mourners. There are among them some whose
deaths have wrung from us also many a bitter tear."

[10] He was cousin to Critias, and uncle by the mother's side to
Plato, who introduces him in the dialogue, which bears his name
(and treats of Temperance), as a very young man at the beginning
of the Peloponnesian War. We hear more of him also from Xenophon
himself in the "Memorabilia," iii. 6. 7; and as one of the
interlocutors in the "Symposium."

[11] I.e. of the Eleusinian mysteries. He had not only a loud voice,
but a big body. Cf. Aristoph. "Frogs," 1237.

So he spoke, but the officers and leaders of the defeated army who
were left, unwilling that their troops should listen to such topics at
that moment, led them back to the city. But the next day the Thirty,
in deep down-heartedness and desolation, sat in the council chamber.