Without questioning generally the matters of fact set forth by Lysias in this oration (delivered a long time afterwards, see s. 90), I believe that he misdates them, and represents them as having occurred before the surrender, whereas they really occurred after it. We know from Xenophon, that when Theramenês came back the second time with the real peace, the people were in such a state of famine, that farther waiting was impossible: the peace was accepted immediately that it was proposed; cruel as it was, the people were glad to get it (Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 2, 22). Besides, how could Agoratus be conveyed with two vessels out of Munychia, when the harbor was closely blocked up? and what is the meaning of ἕως τὰ πράγματα κατασταίη, referred to a moment just before the surrender?
[363] Lysias cont. Agorat. Or. xiii, sects. 38, 60, 68.
[364] Lysias cont. Eratosth. Or. xii, s. 74: compare Aristotle ap. Schol. ad Aristophan. Vesp. 157.
[365] Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 3, 2.
[366] Lysias cont. Eratosth. Or. xii, sects. 74-77.
[367] Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 3, 6-8.
[368] Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 2, 8.
[369] Plutarch, Lysand. c. 16; Diodor. xiii, 106.
[370] Xenoph. Hellen. ii, 2, 11: Lysias cont. Agorat. Orat. xiii, sects. 23-80.
Tisias, the brother-in-law of Chariklês, was a member of this senate (Isokratês, Or. xvi, De Bigis, s. 53).