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| | Table of Contents and Excerpt, Todd, Lysias |
 | | Lysias himself recounts how he and his brother Polemarchus were among a small group of metics arrested by the Thirty, allegedly on suspicion of being hostile towards the regime, but really (according to Lysias) in order to confiscate their considerable wealth (Lys.12.12-19). |
 | | We are told that Lysias himself was a beneficiary of a decree proposed immediately after the restoration by Thrasybulus, one of the democratic leaders, granting citizenship to those metics who had assisted the democrats, but that this decree was promptly challenged by Archinus, one of the other democratic leaders, and annulled as unconstitutional. |
 | | The survival of a speech, therefore, cannot be taken as evidence that it was one of Lysias' finest, let alone that it was (or was regarded) as authentic, either in the sense of being genuinely by Lysias or in the sense of being a genuine speech. |
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