The Eleven

What member of the Eleven will ever accept custody?

For a theft in day-time of more than fifty drachmas a man might be arrested summarily and put into custody of the Eleven.

—If any man be put under arrest after being found guilty of ill-treating his parents or of shirking service, or for entering any forbidden place after notice of outlawry, the Eleven shall put him into prison and bring him before the Court of Heliaea, and any person being a lawful prosecutor may prosecute him.

For, he said, the eleven are releasing Socrates from his fetters and giving directions how he is to die today.

So far as this is concerned, then, speak and ask what ever questions you please, so long as the eleven of the Athenians permit.

and if they be adjudged guilty, that they be punished with death and handed over to the Eleven, and that their property be confiscated and the tenth thereof belong to the goddess.

At this moment the herald of the Thirty ordered the Eleven to seize Theramenes;

And when all had thus been seized, they ordered Lysimachus, the cavalry commander, to take them to Athens and turn them over to the Eleven.

and I will harbour no grievance against any citizen, save only the Thirty, the Ten, and the Eleven:

The Athenian people rescued him from the very hands of the Eleven:

They establish also by lot the Eleven, those who are to take charge of those in the prison, and to put to death the thieves, kidnappers, and clothes-stealers who are led off, if they confess, but if they dispute, to bring them into the law-court, and if they are acquitted, to release them, but if not, then to put them to death;

Then, with the Eleven, he led the way to the homes of his fellow-citizens.

This man displayed a brutality so far in excess of theirs that he, a public man under a democracy, turned every man’s private house into a jail by conducting the Eleven into your homes.

but he proposed in your Assembly monstrous and unconstitutional decrees, by means of which he created a job for himself and has stolen a great deal that belongs to you, putting in a clause that the Eleven should attend on him.

But they bring into court burglars and thieves and other evil-doers who are charged with capital crimes.

I thought that the Eleven, or persons chosen by the senate, should have everything written down, and then, having sealed up the evidence extorted by the torture—the answers, that is, given by the men—should produce it in court, that you might hear it, and in the light of this reach whatever verdict you might think right.

I answered, however, in the presence of witnesses, that I was ready to go with them to the senate, and in conjunction with the senate or the Eleven to receive the slaves for the torture, telling them that, if my suit against them had been a private one, I should have accepted the slaves for the torture, if they had offered them, but that, as it was, both the slaves and the information belonged to the state;

Perhaps he does something involving summary arrest.

he was subsequently released with certain other criminals by the Eleven, all of whom you publicly condemned to death, and, having been again denounced to the Council as a malefactor, he absconded and did not appear to answer the charge, and for seventeen years after this he never came near Athens, and only returned on the death of Nicostratus.

malefactors and their instigators, by the Eleven;