The History of Greek Alphabets

Aratosthenes had overseen the arrest of lycius, his brother polomarcus and their fellow metics on charges of general hostility and resistance to the 30. As a non citizen, lysius would not have been able to deliver the speech himself in court. Some scholars believe that lycius wrote the speech hypothetically and circulated in a pamphlet just to voice his opinions about the matter. It has been suggested that lycius may have been granted citizenship by the democracy after the 30 were expelled - in which case he could have delivered own speech in the court.