I therefore informed the Council that I knew the offenders, and showed exactly what had occurred. The idea, I said, had been suggested by Euphiletus at a drinking-party; but I opposed it, and succeeded in preventing its execution for the time being. Later, however, I was thrown from a colt of mine in Cynosarges A gymnasium sacred to Heracles on the eastern outskirts of 
 Athens , near the Diomean Gate. ; I broke my collar-bone and fractured my skull, and had to be taken home on a litter.