These are noble lines for us to remember, Athenians; they
 are a tribute to those whose deeds they record and an undying glory to the city. But
 Leocrates has not acted thus. Deliberately he sullied that honor which the city has
 accumulated from the earliest times. Therefore if you kill him all Greeks will believe
 that you too hate such acts as his. If not, you will rob your forbears of their long-lived
 renown, and will do grievous harm to your fellow citizens. For those who do not admire our
 ancestors will try to imitate Leocrates believing, that although among men of the past the
 old virtues had a place of honor, in your eyes shamelessness, treachery and cowardice are
 held in most esteem. If I am unable to show you what your attitude towards such
 men should be, remember your ancestors and the methods of punishment which they employed
 against them. Capable as they were of the noblest actions, they were no less ready to
 punish what was base. Think of them, gentlemen; think how enraged they were with traitors
 and how they looked on them as common enemies of the city. You remember when Phrynichus Phrynichus, commander of
 the Athenian fleet at Samos , took part in the
 Revolution of the Four Hundred in 411 B.C. According to
 Thucydides (viii. 92) he was murdered in the market place in broad daylight ( ἐν τῇ ἀγόρᾳ πληθούσῃ ) by an unknown hand, after
 returning from a mission to Sparta which had
 failed. But the account of Lysias ( Lys. 13.71 ) agrees in the
 main with that of Lycurgus. The spring was probably in the market place. Critias was
 later chief of the Thirty. was murdered at night beside the fountain in the osier
 beds by Apollodorus and Thrasybulus, who were later caught and put in the prison by the
 friends of Phrynichus. The people noted what had happened and, releasing the prisoners,
 held an inquiry after torture. On investigation they found that Phrynichus had been trying
 to betray the city and that his murderers had been unjustly imprisoned. They decreed publicly, on the motion of Critias, that the dead man should be tried for
 treason, and that if it were found that this was a tratior who had been buried in the
 country, his bones should be dug up and removed from Attica , A law existed to the effect that a
 man condemned for treason should not be buried in Attica (see Xen. Hell. 1.7.22 ). 
 so that the land should not have lying in it even the bones of one who had betrayed his
 country and his city. They decreed also that if any persons defended the dead man and he were found guilty,
 they should be liable to the same punishment as he. Thus, in their view, it was wrong even
 to assist men who had deserted others; and to try to save the traitor would be to betray
 the city no less than he. In this way then, by hating wrongdoers and by passing such
 measures against them, they brought themselves safely out of dangers. Produce the decree
 for them, clerk, and read it.