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Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 5, section 87
ice and the facts cannot prevail against that decision. Once you condemn me, I must perforce obey your verdict and the law, even if I am not the murderer or concerned in the crime. No one would venture either to disregard the sentence passed upon him because he was sure that he had had no part in the crime, or to disobey the law if he knew in his heart that he was guilty of such a deed. He has to submit to the verdict in defiance of the facts, or submit to the facts themselves, as the case may be, above all if his victim has none to avenge him.The speaker is here thinking of the master who has killed his slave; the slave has no family to institute proceedings on his behalf （cf. Antiph. 6.4 f.）. The argument of 87 as a whole sounds odd to modern ears; but it should be remembered that at Athens the defendant in a di/kh fo/nou always had the option of going into voluntary exile before the court passed sentence. Hence it was possible to speak of “disregarding the sentence impo