69. Why, then, is it not proper for you all to convict this man? For if
each of them deserved death for one crime, surely, since he has committed
many offenses, both publicly against the state and privately against you,
for all of which crimes the penalty is death in our laws, you must
condemn him to death.
70. Gentlemen of the jury, he will speak and try to deceive you
(pretending) that he killed Phrynichus in the time of the Four Hundred;
and he says the people made him an Athenian on account of this. But he
lies, gentlemen of the jury, for he neither killed Phrynichus nor did the
people make him an Athenian. 71. For, gentlemen of the jury, Thrasybulus
of Calydon and Apollodorus of Megara conspired against Phrynichus. When
they came up to him as he was walking, Thrasybulus struck Phrynichus and
felled him with a blow, but Apollodorus did not even lay hands upon him.
Then a shout was raised, and they set off to escape. But Agoratus was
neither called in to help nor was he present nor did he know anything of
the deed. This decree will make it plain to you that I tell the truth.