As a noncitizen resident in Athens, Lysias could take no direct part in politics, but his speeches, written for clients to deliver in court, paint vivid pictures of various private and public disputes: one speaker defends himself on a charge of murdering his wife's lover, while another is accused of having caused the deaths of democratic activists under the short-lived oligarchy of the Thirty (404/3), despite his claim to be protected by the amnesty that accompanied the restoration of democracy in 403. And those other men, those who were acting like drunken louts with him, as soon as they saw me after these events, they begged my forgiveness, as they had not been done wrong, but as they had done monstrous things: and since that time, four years have passed, and no one has ever brought any charge against me. Sociologically what is most interesting about the speech is its position within an extended dispute, in which the present case is the fourth in the series to come to court; by no means is it necessarily the last. Lysias (Greek: Λυσίας) (ca. AGAINST ERGOCLES AND AGAINST PHILOCRATES, 34. 2. He evidently inherited many of the liabilities, both financial and personal, that had been incurred by his flamboyant father, but without also inheriting his father s personal and political power. As usual, we do not know the result of the trial, or what happened afterwards, though it can be firmly dated to 384/3 BC (see 10.4n), making it one of the latest speeches in the corpus of Lysias. 37. The speeches in this text show the best and worst of Classical Athens, from tawdry affairs aired in the law courts to Athens' heroic self-image portrayed in the. AGAINST THE SONS OF HIPPOCRATES, FRAGMENT 11. If Theodotus was a slave, his testimony at a trial was invalid unless it was acquired by torture. ( Log Out /  Acts 23:26 "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings. The name given to Antiochus V who had succeeded his father Antiochus IV (Epiphanes), 164 BC, while still a child under the guardianship of Lysias (APC 1Macc 3 .../e/eupator.htm - 7k, Felix (11 Occurrences)... being attacked at the instigation of the Asiatic Jews for alleged false teaching and profanation of the temple, was rescued with difficulty by Lysias the chief .../f/felix.htm - 15k, Antonius... being attacked at the instigation of the Asiatic Jews for alleged false teaching and profanation of the temple, was rescued with difficulty by Lysias the chief .../a/antonius.htm - 10k, Lys'ias (2 Occurrences)Lys'ias. What should I have ever suffered, if the opposite of what has presently happened was so, if I had many of my friends when I encountered Simon, and fought with him, and I was beating him, and giving chase, and had captured him, seeking to drag him off by force, whereas now, when this man has done these things, I have entered into a contest of this sort, in which I run a risk concerning my fatherland, and my property, all of it. And since I also believed there to be no premeditation of harm when someone, with no desire to kill, inflicts a wound. According to Josephus (Ant., XII, vii, 2), the instructions of Lysias were' "to conquer Judea, enslave its inhabitants, utterly destroy Jerusalem and abolish the whole nation." It was heard not by an ordinary dikastic court but by the Council of the Areopagus, which is the reason for the address “members of the Council” in both speeches. (2) See CLAUDIUS LYSIAS (Acts 23:26).J.