Critias

Most inevitably.

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Consider then, he said.

Then when Theramenes arrived, Critias arose and spoke as follows:

Even so you, if you are wise, will not spare this Theramenes, but rather yourselves;

Now in fact we find this man Theramenes trying, by what means he can, to destroy both ourselves and you.

Did you put to death Socrates the sophist, fellow citizens, because he was shown to have been the teacher of Critias, one of the Thirty who put down the democracy, and after that, shall Demosthenes succeed in snatching companions of his own out of your hands, Demosthenes, who takes such vengeance on private citizens and friends of the people for their freedom of speech?

Critias.

"I drink this to the fair Critias" — who had been most foul toward him.

Again, when Euripides had written, "From a father and mother who toil out a hard manner of living, the offspring are better," Critias writes:

He razed to the ground Eetioneia, into which Critias and his faction were about to receive the Lacedaemonians, destroyed the fortress raised against us, and restored the people to their country, incurring himself dangers not like those which we are incurring, but dangers in which even disaster is glorious;

For my part, I conceive that if the author of the statute had been Critias of the Thirty Tyrants, he would hardly have framed and introduced it in any other fashion than this.

Or do you not know about Critias, one of the Thirty, that he said the fairest form in males was the female, and again in females the contrary?

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, so that the land should not have lying in it even the bones of one who had betrayed his country and his city.

We had only just come in, when close on our heels entered Alcibiades the good-looking, as you call him and I agree that he is, and Critias, son of Callaeschrus.

And I do not mean only those who fashion it out of manifest bodily things — as Hipparchus and Heraclitus out of fire, as Hippo and Thales out of water, as Empedocles and Critias out of blood, as Epicurus out of atoms (if atoms too compose corporealities by their conjunction), as Critolaus and his Peripatetics out of some fifth substance I know not what (if that too is a body, since it includes bod …

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Now Critias bore a grudge against Socrates for this;

You shall not converse with anyone who is under thirty.