Decree Now if they had been tried before the proper court, they would have easily escaped harm; for by that time you were all apprised of the evil plight of the city, though you were unable at that stage to be of further service to her. But as it was, they were brought before the Council which sat under the Thirty. Cf. above, Lys. 13.20 . And the trial was conducted in a manner that you yourselves well know: the Thirty were seated on the benches which are now the seats of the presiding magistrates; two tables were set before the Thirty, and the vote had to be deposited, not in urns, but openly on these tables,—the condemning vote on the further one i.e., nearest to the Thirty. The text here has a short gap. —so what possible chance of escape had any of them?