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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: 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."
Hearing these words Theramenes sprang upon the altar of Hestia,
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