Against Agoratus: In Pursuance of a Writ

Lysias

Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.

He will say, gentlemen, attempting to deceive you, that in the time of the Four Hundred[*](411 B.C.; cf. Lys. 12.42.) he killed Phrynichus,[*](A prominent member of the Four Hundred; cf. Thuc. 8.92.) and in reward for this, he asserts, the people made him an Athenian citizen. But he lies, gentlemen. For neither did he kill Phrynichus, nor did the people make him an Athenian citizen.