 in his work "Politics", Aristotle discusses the implications to a democracy concerning the use of such "probouloi".The orator Lysias recorded that Theramenes was a leader involved in the adoption of an oligarchy, and his father, who was one of the "probouloi", "was active in this business".Aristotle, in a discussion in his "Rhetoric", recalls that one of the "probouloi", the tragedian Sophocles, admitted approving of setting up the 400, saying that although it appeared like a bad thing to do, "there was nothing better to be done."