Before the Council: In Defense of Mantitheus at His Scrutiny

Our father, before the disaster at the Hellespont,[*](At Aegospotami, 405 B.C.) had sent us abroad to live at the court of Satyrus, on the Pontus.[*](At Panticapaeum in the east corner of the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea), capital of the Kingdom of Bosphorus, which exported corn to Athens.) We were not residing in Athens either when the walls were being demolished or when the constitution was being changed.[*](In the spring of 404 B.C.) We came here five days before the people at Phyle returned to the Peiraeus.[*](In May, 403 B.C.)