Lysias

Phaedrus.

Then Lysias, it seems,was in the city?

For I spent a long time there with Lysias, sitting since early morning;

Again, when Isocrates had said, "as being kin to his money, but not to him," Lysias in the Orphans' speeches says, "And it has become plain that he was kin not to their persons, but to their money.

Lysias, the sophist, being the lover of Metaneira, wished, in addition to the other expenditures which he lavished upon her, also to initiate her;

When they got here, Lysias did not bring them to his own house, out of regard for his wife, the daughter of Brachyllus and his own niece, and for his own mother, who was elderly and who lived in the same house;

Of the orators, who does not know the best—that Demosthenes surpassed all the orators in power of delivery and cleverness of thought and abundance of words, and Lysias in brevity and simplicity and continuity of thought and in concealing his cleverness?

offices, which Lysias the orator calls the common hopes of our nature.

So we went with them to Polemarchus’s house, and there we found Lysias and Euthydemus, the brothers of Polemarchus, yes, and Thrasymachus, too, of Chalcedon, and Charmantides of the deme of Paeania, and Kleitophon the son of Aristonymus.

and Lysias, with the same number of ships, was stationed behind Protomachus, and Aristogenes behind Thrasyllus.

Pericles, Diomedon, Lysias, Aristocrates, Thrasyllus, and Erasinides,—Archedemus, who was at that time a leader of the popular party at Athens and had charge of the two-obol fund, brought accusation against Erasinides before a court and urged that a fine be imposed upon him, claiming that he had in his possession money from the Hellespont which belonged to the people;