Now in the beginning Critias and
								Theramenes were agreed in their policy and friendly; but when
								Critias showed himself eager to put many to death, because, for one
								thing, he had been banished by the democracy, Theramenes opposed
								him, saying that it 404 B.C. was not
								reasonable to put a man to death because he was honoured by the
								commons, provided he was doing no harm to the aristocrats. For, 
								said he, you and I also have said and done many things for the sake
								of winning the favour of the city. Then Critias (for he still treated Theramenes as a friend) replied
								that it was impossible for people who wanted to gain power not to
								put out of the way those who were best able to thwart them. But
								if, he said, merely because we are thirty and not one, you imagine
								that it is any the less necessary for us to keep a close watch over
								this government, just as one would if it were an absolute monarchy,
								you are foolish. But when, on account of the great numbers continually—and
								unjustly—put to death, it was evident that many were banding
								together and wondering what the state was coming to, Theramenes
								spoke again, saying that unless they admitted an adequate number of
								citizens into partnership with them in the management of affairs, it
								would be impossible for the oligarchy to endure. Accordingly Critias and the rest of the Thirty, who were by this time
								alarmed and feared above all that the citizens would flock to the
								support of Theramenes, enrolled a body of three thousand, who were
								to share, as they said, in the government. Theramenes, however, objected to this move also, saying that, in the
								first place, it seemed to him absurd that, when they wanted to make
								the best of the citizens their associates, they should limit
								themselves to three thousand, as though this number must somehow be
								good men and true and there could neither be excellent men outside
								this body nor rascals within 404 B.C. it.
								 Besides, he said, we are undertaking, in my opinion, two
								absolutely inconsistent things,—to rig up our government on the
								basis of force and at the same time to make it weaker than its
								subjects.