ABSTRACT
Soon after the Thirty Tyrants came to power, two of their number, Theognis and Peison, suggested to their colleagues that some metics were opposed to the new government and that this provided an opportunity to seize their assets. The Thirty chose ten targets, including Lysias and his brother Polemarchus (§§6-7). Lysias was arrested but managed to escape his captors by a combination of bribery and sheer luck (§§8-17). Polemarchus, however, was apprehended by the tyrant Eratosthenes and forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock (§17).
