Thus it is not only from his services to you, but also from what he suffered on your
 account, that you may easily recognize his loyalty. For it is self-evident that it was the
 people he was aiding, that he desired the same form of government as yourselves, that he
 suffered at the hands of the same persons, that he was unfortunate when the state was
 unfortunate, that he considered the same persons as you his enemies and friends, that in
 every way he exposed himself to danger either at your hands, or on your account, or on your behalf, or in partnership with you, being as a citizen quite unlike
 Charicles, Charicles was one of the most cruel of the
 Thirty Tyrants. Cf. Lys. 12.55 ; Xen. Hell. 2.3.2 . my opponent’s brother-in-law, who chose to be a slave
 to the enemy, yet claimed the right to rule his fellow-citizens; who, when in exile, was
 inactive, but on his return was ever injuring the city. And yet how could one prove
 himself to be a baser friend or a viler enemy? And then do you, Teisias, his brother-in-law and a member of the Council in the time of
 the Thirty Tyrants, have the hardihood to rake up old grudges against those of the other
 side, and are you not ashamed to be violating the terms of the amnesty which permits you
 to reside in the city, nor do you even reflect that, whenever the decision shall be made
 to exact punishment for past crimes, it is you who are menaced by danger more speedy and
 greater than mine? For surely they will not inflict punishment on me for my father’s acts and at the same
 time pardon you for the crimes you yourself have committed! No, assuredly it will not be
 found that your pleas in extenuation are anything like his! For you were not banished from
 your native land, but on the contrary you were a member of the government; you did not act
 under compulsion, but you were a willing agent; it was not in self-defense, but on our own
 initiative, that you were wronging your fellow-citizens, so that it is not fitting that
 you should be permitted by them even to enter a plea in your defense. But on the subject of the political misdeeds of Teisias, very likely some day at his
 trial I shall have the opportunity of speaking at greater length. But as for you, men of
 the jury, I beg you not to abandon me to my enemies nor entangle me in the net of
 irremediable misfortunes. For even now I have had sufficient experience of evils, since at
 my birth I was left an orphan through my father’s exile and my mother’s death; and I was
 not yet four years of age when I was brought into peril of my life owing to my father’s
 exile;