And after the commission of such crimes he will dare to say that it is we who are lying.
 Why that would be as if Phrynondas A notorious swindler;
 cf. Aristoph. Thes. 861 and Aeschin. 3.137 . should reproach a man with villainy,
 or as if Philurgos, who stole the Gorgon’s head, The golden
 relief of the head, the work of Pheidias, was affixed to the shield of the gold and
 ivory statue of Athena in the Parthenon. had called everybody else
 temple-robbers! Who is more likely to present witnesses of events which have not occurred
 than my antagonist here, who himself has the hardihood to testify falsely for others? But against Callimachus it will be possible to bring accusations time and again, for he
 has contrived his life as a citizen that way; but as for myself, I shall say nothing of
 all my other contributions to the state, but I will merely remind you of that one, a
 service for which, if you would do me justice, you would not only be grateful, but you
 would take it even as evidence bearing upon the case as a whole. Now when the city had lost its ships in the Hellespont At
 Aegospotami, 405 B.C. and was shorn of its power, I so
 far surpassed the majority of the trierarchs that I was one of the very few who saved
 their ships: and of these few I alone brought back my ship to the Piraeus and did not
 resign my duties as trierarch;