And his saying did not prove false, for when they had taken up their
								shields, he, as though led on by a kind of fate, leaped forth first
								of all, fell upon the enemy, and was slain, and he lies buried at
								the ford of the Cephisus; but the others were victorious, and
								pursued the enemy as far as the level ground. In this battle fell
								two of the Thirty, Critias and Hippomachus, one of the Ten who ruled
								in Piraeus, Charmides, the son of Glaucon, and about seventy of the
								others. And the victors took possession of their arms, but they did
								not strip off the tunic Worn
									underneath the breastplate. The victors, then, appropriated the
									arms and armour of the dead, but not their clothing. of
								any citizen. When this had been done and while they were giving back
								the bodies of the dead, many on either side mingled and talked with
								one another. And Cleocritus, the herald of the initiated, i.e. in the Eleusinian mysteries. a man with
								a very fine voice, obtained silence and said: Fellow citizens, why
								do you drive us out of the city? why do you wish to kill us? For we
								never did you any harm, but we have shared with you in the most
								solemn rites and sacrifices and the most splendid festivals, we have
								been companions in the dance and schoolmates and comrades in arms,
								and we have braved many dangers with you both by land and by sea in
								defense of the 404 B.C. common safety and
								freedom of us both. In the name of the gods of our fathers and mothers, in the name of
								our ties of kinship and marriage and comradeship,—for all these many
								of us share with one another,—cease, out of shame before gods and
								men, to sin against your fatherland, and do not obey those most
								accursed Thirty, who for the sake of their private gain have killed
								in eight months more Athenians, almost, than all the Peloponnesians
								in ten years of war. And when we might live in peace as fellow citizens, these men bring
								upon us war with one another, a war most utterly shameful and
								intolerable, utterly unholy and hated by both gods and men. Yet for
								all that, be well assured that for some of those now slain by our
								hands not only you, but we also, have wept bitterly. Thus he spoke; but the surviving officials
								of the oligarchy, partly because their followers were hearing such
								things, led them back to the city. On the following day the Thirty, utterly dejected and with but few
								adherents left, held their session in the council-chamber; and as
								for the Three Thousand, wherever their several detachments were
								stationed, everywhere they began to quarrel with one another. For
								all those who had done any act of especial violence and were
								therefore fearful, urged strenuously that they ought not to yield to
								the men in Piraeus; while those who were confident that they had
								done no wrong, argued in their own minds and set forth to the others
								that there was no need of their suffering these evils, and they said
								that they ought not to obey the Thirty or allow them to ruin the
								state. In the end they voted to depose the Thirty and choose others.
								And they chose ten, one from 404 B.C. each
								tribe.