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in defence of which
Aristocrates, son of Scelius, the uncle of my grandfather Epichares, whose name
my brother here bears, performed many glorious deeds, when our country was at
war with the Lacedaemonians. He razed to the ground Eetioneia,1 into which Critias2 and his faction were about
to receive the Lacedaemonians, destroyed the fortress raised against us, and
restored the people to their country, incurring himself dangers not like those
which we are incurring, but dangers in which even disaster is glorious; and he
put a stop to those who were plotting against you.
1 This was one of the forts guarding the Peiraeus. On Aristocrates and his struggle with the oligarchs, see Thuc. 8.88-92.
2 Critias was one of the leaders of the Thirty Tyrants. Epichares is at fault in his chronology.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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