Against Agoratus: In Pursuance of a Writ

But he gave it willingly, as I think you will perceive for yourselves from what has since occurred. For they sent into the Council Theocritus, the man called the son of Elaphostictus[*](Deermark; from some birth-mark of tattoo, indicating a foreign or servile origin.): this Theocritus was a comrade and intimate of Agoratus. The Council which held session before the time of the Thirty had been corrupted, and its appetite for oligarchy, as you know, was very keen.