This was what Theramenes said. As for
								the Thirty, they held a review, the Three Thousand assembling in the
								market-place and those who were not on the roll in various places
								here and there; then they gave the order to pile arms, and while the
								men were off duty and away, they sent their Lacedaemonian guardsmen
								and such citizens as were in sympathy with them, seized the arms of
								all except the Three Thousand, carried them up to the Acropolis, and
								deposited them in the temple. And now, when this had been accomplished, thinking that they were at
								length free to do whatever they pleased, they put many people to
								death out of personal enmity, and many also for the sake of securing
								their property. One measure that they resolved upon, in order to get
								money to pay their guardsmen, was that each of their number should
								seize one of the aliens residing in the city, and that they should
								put these men to death and confiscate their property. So they bade Theramenes also to seize anyone he pleased; and he
								replied: But it is not honourable, as it seems to me, he said,
								 for people who style themselves the best citizens to commit acts of
								greater injustice than the informers used to do. For they allowed
								those from whom they got money, to live; but shall we, in order to
								get money, put to death men who are guilty of no wrong-doing? Are
								not such acts altogether more unjust than theirs were? Then the Thirty, thinking that Theramenes was an obstacle to their
								doing whatever they pleased, plotted against 404
									B.C. him, and kept accusing him to individual
								senators, one to one man and another to another, of injuring the
								government. And after passing the word to some young men, who seemed
								to them most audacious, to be in attendance with daggers hidden
								under their arms, they convened the Senate. Then when Theramenes arrived, Critias arose and spoke as
								follows: Gentlemen of the Senate,
								if anyone among you thinks that more people than is fitting are
								being put to death, let him reflect that where governments are
								changed these things always take place; and it is inevitable that
								those who are changing the government here to an oligarchy should
								have most numerous enemies, both because the state is the most
								populous of the Greek states and because the commons have been bred
								up in a condition of freedom for the longest time.