Against Alcibiades: For Deserting the Ranks

Lysias

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

When his father was dead[*](404 B.C.) Archebiades, who had become his lover, obtained his release. Not long afterwards, having diced away his fortune, he took ship at White Cliff,[*](On the Propontis.) and attempted to drown his friends at sea.