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Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 5 (search)
You must all be agreed, men of Athens, that in these proceedings I am concerned equally with
Ctesiphon, and that they require
from me no less serious consideration. Any loss, especially if inflicted by
private animosity, is hard to bear; but to lose your goodwill and kindness is
the most painful of all losses, as to gain them is the best of all acquisitions.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 13 (search)
It is
not right to debar a man from access to the Assembly and a fair hearing, still
less to do so by way of spite and jealousy. No, by heavens, men of Athens, it is neither just, nor
constitutional, nor honest! If he ever saw me committing crimes against the
commonwealth, especially such frightful crimes as he described just now so
dramatically, his duty was to avail himself of the legal penalties as soon as
they were committed, impeaching me, and so putting me on my trial before the
people, if my sins deserved impeachment, or indicting me for breach of the
constitution, if I had proposed illegal measures. For, of course, if he
prosecutes Ctesiphon now on my account,
it is impossible that he would not have indicted me, with a certain hope of
conviction!
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 15 (search)
but in fact he has deserted the path
of right and justice, he has flinched from the proof of recent guilt, and then,
after a long interval, he makes a hotchpotch of imputation and banter and
scurrility, and stands on a false pretence, denouncing me, but indicting
Ctesiphon. He sets in the forefront
of the controversy his private quarrel with me, in which he has never confronted
me fairly; yet he is avowedly seeking to disfranchise somebody else.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 16 (search)
There are many other arguments, men of Athens, to be pleaded on Ctesiphon's behalf, but this surely is
eminently reasonable, that the honest course was to fight out our own quarrels
by ourselves, not to turn aside from our antagonism and try to find some one
else to injure. That is carrying iniquity too far!
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 54 (search)
Indictment[In
the archonship of Chaerondas, on the sixth day of Elaphebolion, Aeschines,
son of Atrometus, of Cothocidae, indicted Ctesiphon, son of Leosthenes, of Anaphlystus, before the
Archon for a breach of the constitution, in that he proposed an
unconstitutional decree, to wit, that Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of
Paeania should be crowned with a golden crown, and that proclamation should
be made in the theatre at the Great Dionysia, when the new tragedies are
produced, that “the People crown Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes,
of Paeania, with a golden crown for his merit and for the goodwill which he
has constantly displayed both towards all the Greeks and towards the people
of Athens, and also for his
steadfastness,
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 57 (search)
Now take first the clause which recites that in word and deed I have
constantly done my best for the common weal, and that I am ever zealous to do
all the good in my power, and which commends me on those grounds. Your judgement
on that clause must, I take it, depend simply on my public acts, by examining
which you will discover whether Ctesiphon has given a true and proper, or a false, description
of my conduct.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 83 (search)
Although at
that time you decorated me for my services, although Aristonicus drafted the
decree in the very same terms that Ctesiphon has now used, although the decoration was proclaimed
in the theatre, so that this is the second proclamation of my name there,
Aeschines, who was present, never opposed the decree, nor did he indict the
proposer. Take and read the decree in question.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 250 (search)
When, on my impeachment, you acquitted me, and did
not give the prosecutors the fifth part of your votes, your verdict implied
approval of my policy. When I was indicted, I satisfied you that my proposals
and my speeches had been constitutional. When you put the seal on my accounts,
you further admitted that I had done my business honestly and without
corruption. That being so, what description could Ctesiphon properly and honestly have applied to my conduct,
other than that which he had seen applied by the whole nation and by sworn
juries, and confirmed by the truth in the eyes of all men?
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 12 (search)
So on the strength of
his policy at that time, and of the sample he had exhibited of his conduct, he
was actually appointed as one of the ambassadors when you were induced by
Aristodemus, Neoptolemus, Ctesiphon and
others, who had brought entirely misleading reports from Macedonia, to send an embassy to negotiate
peace with Philip. He was chosen, not as one who would make traffic of your
interests, not as one who had any confidence in Philip, but as one of the party
that was to keep an eye on the rest, for in view of his early speeches, and of
his known hostility to Philip, it was natural that you should all have such an
opinion of the man.
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 18 (search)
I came forward and reported the whole truth to the Council. I denounced these
men, and told the whole story, point by point, beginning with those earlier
hopes created by the reports of Ctesiphon and Aristodemus, going on to the more recent orations
of Aeschines at the approval of the peace, and showing to what straits they had
reduced the city. There remained the question of the Phocians and Thermopylae, and we must
not—such was my advice—we must not repeat our experience,
and throw them overboard, and so, in reliance upon a succession of idle hopes
and assurances, allow ourselves to fall into the last extremity of disaster. I
convinced the Counc