but when the other trierarchs were glad to be relieved of their duties and were
 discouraged over the situation, and not only regretted the loss of what they had already
 spent, but were trying to conceal the remainder and, judging that the commonwealth was
 completely ruined, were looking out for their private interests, my decision was not the
 same as theirs; but after persuading my brother to be joint-trierarch with me, we paid the
 crew out of our own means and proceeded to harass the enemy. And finally, when Lysander The general of the victorious
 Spartan army of occupation. proclaimed that if anyone should import grain to you
 he would be punished with death, we were so zealous for the city’s welfare that, although
 no one else dared to bring in even his own, we intercepted the grain that was being
 brought in to them and discharged it at the Piraeus. In recognition of these services you
 voted that we should be honored with crowns, and that in front of the statues of the
 eponymous heroes These were statues of those heroes who
 gave their names to the ten Attic tribes. The probable site of these statues is near the
 north-center of the Agora, near the statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton and in the
 neighborhood of the temple of Ares. we should be proclaimed as the authors of
 great blessings. Yet surely men who should now be regarded as friends of the people are not those who,
 when the people were in power, were eager to participate in affairs, but those who, when
 the state was suffering misfortune, were willing to brave the first dangers in your
 behalf, and gratitude is due, not to him who has suffered personal hardships, but to him
 who has conferred benefits upon you; and in the case of those who have become poor, pity
 should be felt, not for those who have lost their property, but for those who have spent
 their fortune for your good.