It should be noted that we have only the second part of
 the speech, the eulogy of Alcibiades the elder; the first part must have presented the
 statement of facts and the citation of evidence. So then, concerning the team of
 horses The “team” consisted of four
 race-horses. —that my father was in possession of them, not by having taken them
 away from Teisias, but by having purchased them from the Argive state—you have heard both
 the Argive ambassadors and the others conversant with the facts testify. But in just this
 same fashion all are accustomed maliciously to accuse me. For they obtain leave to bring actions against me on private complaints, but make their
 accusations on behalf of the interests of the state, and they spend more time in
 slandering my father than they do in informing you with respect to their sworn charges;
 and so great is their contempt of the law that they claim personal satisfaction from me
 for the wrongs which, as they say, you suffered at my father’s hands. But it is my opinion that charges involving the public interest have nothing to do with
 private suits; but as Teisias often reproaches me with my father’s banishment, and is more
 zealous concerning your affairs than he is regarding his own, I must address my defense to
 these matters. Certainly I should be ashamed, if I were to seem to any of my
 fellow-citizens to have less concern for my father’s good name than for my own peril. Now so far as the older men are concerned, a brief statement could have sufficed: for
 they all know that the same men were responsible for the destruction of the democracy and
 for my father’s exile; but for the benefit of the younger men, who have lived after the
 events and have often heard the slanderers, I will begin my exposition from an earlier
 time. Now the persons who first plotted against the democracy and established the Four
 Hundred, The Revolution of the Four Hundred in 411 B.C. conducted the Athenian government for only a few
 months. inasmuch as my father, although he was repeatedly invited to join them
 would not do so, seeing that he was a vigorous opponent of their activities and a loyal
 supporter of the people, judged that they were powerless to upset the established order
 until he was removed out of their way.