The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: [13] Cf. Lysias, "Or." 18. 6.
[14] Probably the son of Lysidonides. See Thirlwall, "Hist. of
Greece," vol. iv. p. 179 (ed. 1847); also Lysias, "Or." 12. contra
Eratosth. According to Lysias, Theramenes, when a member of the
first Oligarchy, betrayed his own closest friends, Antiphon and
Archeptolemus. See Prof. Jebb, "Attic Orators," I. x. p. 266.
[15] The resident aliens, or {metoikoi}, "metics," so technically
called.
[16] Isocr. "De Bigis," 355; and Prof. Jebb's "Attic Orators," ii.
230. In the defence of his father's career, which the younger
Alcibiades, the defendant in this case (B.C. 397 probably) has
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