Thrasybolus's Pre-Battle Speech

The 30's forces were defeated in the so called battle of municia with 70 total athenian casualties. Xenophon mentions that the victors did not strip the dead corpses, and he makes no mention of them rais a trophy in honor of their victory either. Allegedly, critius funeral monument depicted the oligarchy setting fire to democracy and had an inscription referring to the huberus of the accursed demos. The citizens on either side held some conversation with one another, until finally, cleocritus, the herald of the elusinian misti, yelled out for silence and addressed the adherents of the 30 in a moving speech. In the wake of the battle there arose