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[43] Now his life in the interval I will here pass over: but when the sea-fight1 took place, with the disaster that befell the city, and while we still had a democracy （at this point they started the sedition）, five men were set up as overseers2 by the so-called “club men,” to be organizers of the citizens as well as chiefs of the conspirators and opponents of your common wealth; and among these were Eratosthenes and Critias.

1 The battle of Aegospotami, in 405 B.C.

2 In imitation of the “Ephors,” who were the five chief magistrates of Sparta.

Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.

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