When with these words he ceased
								speaking and the Senate had shown its good will by applause,
								Critias, realizing that if he should allow the Senate to pass
								judgment on the case, Theramenes would escape, and thinking that
								this would be unendurable, went and held a brief consultation with
								the Thirty, and then went out and ordered the men with the daggers
								to take their stand at the railing Separating the Senate from the auditorium. in plain
								sight of the Senate. Then he came in again and 404 B.C. said:
								 Senators, I deem it the duty of a leader who is what he ought to
								be, in case he sees that his friends are being deceived, not to
								permit it. I, therefore, shall follow that course. Besides, these
								men who have taken their stand here say that if we propose to let a
								man go who is manifestly injuring the oligarchy, they will not
								suffer us to do so. Now it is provided in the new laws that while no
								one of those who are on the roll of the Three Thousand may be put to
								death without your vote, the Thirty shall have power of life or
								death over those outside the roll. I, therefore, he said, strike
								off this man Theramenes from the roll, with the approval of all the
								Thirty. That being done, he added, we now condemn him to
								death. When Theramenes heard this, he sprang
								to the altar and said: And I, sirs, said he, beg only bare
								justice,—that it be not within the power of Critias to strike off
								either me or whomsoever of you he may wish, but rather that both in
								your case and in mine the judgment may be rendered strictly in
								accordance with that law which these men have made regarding those
								on the roll. To be sure, said he, I know, I swear by the gods, only too well,
								that this altar will avail me nothing, but I wish to show that these
								Thirty are not only most unjust toward men, but also most impious
								toward the gods. But I am surprised at you, he said, gentlemen of
								the aristocracy, that you are not going to defend your own rights,
								especially when you know that my name is not a whit easier to strike
								off than the name of each of you. At this moment the herald of the Thirty ordered the Eleven See on I. vii. 10. to seize
								Theramenes; and when they came in, attended by their servants and
									with 404 B.C. Satyrus, the most
								audacious and shameless of them, at their head, Critias said: We
								hand over to you, said he, this man Theramenes, condemned
								according to the law. Do you, the Eleven, take him and lead him to
								the proper place and do that which follows.