This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...from the begin-10 25, 27, 50. 11 52. ning of the official year in which the 12 J 55. uates that he had such an evil influence13 with Phidon and the others that they disappointed the people and did not carry out the purpose for which they had been chosen, the reconciliation of the democrats and the oligarchs.14 Of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...from the begin-10 25, 27, 50. 11 52. ning of the official year in which the 12 J 55. uates that he had such an evil influence13 with Phidon and the others that they disappointed the people and did not carry out the purpose for which they had been chosen, the reconciliation of the democrats and the oligarchs.14 Of course he was not a member of the Second Ten, a body not mentioned by Lysias,15 for his past membership in the Thirty would cut him off from being included among these patriots. Apparently, however, he remained in Athens during the five months of the First Ten's government, and until the triumphant entry of the followers of Thrasybulus. Thus it was that Lysias on his return to Athens found there the very man through whose agency Polemarchus had been delivered over to the Thirty for execution. Eratosthenes had not gone to Eleusis under the terms of the amnesty,16 for, once there, he could not have been brought back to answer such a charge as Lysias had to make.17 But remaining as he did in Athens, he must have known that charges would be brought against him by his enemies, and hence he must have availed himself as soon as possible of that clause in the amnesty by which those of the Thirty who chose to submit their accounts of office (ev0wu18) were no longer liable to 18 58. 14 Why was not Eratosthenes one of the First Ten? "Was it because Phidon and his associates were not really of the party of Theramenes, but held a middle ground between them and Critias, while Eratosthenes belonged to Theramenes out and out? Or was it because Phidon and his colleagues were real favourers of the Thirty, and were chosen by a trick played on the people? If the latter is the true explanation, Eratosthenes, as a known opponent of the Th...
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