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Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 2 (search)
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 3 (search)
This being so, I have in your interests
taken all due precautions, and now that the case is before the court, I am here,
as you see, to accuse him, having refused large sums of money, men of Athens, which I might have accepted on
condition of dropping the prosecution, and having had to steel myself against
many appeals and favorable offers-yes, and even menaces.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 5 (search)
Now if, men of Athens, I were going to accuse Meidias of
unconstitutional proposals or of misconduct on an embassy or of any offence of
that sort, I should not feel justified in appealing for your sympathy, for I
consider that in such cases the plaintiff ought to confine himself to proving
his case, though the defendant may have recourse to prayers. But since Meidias
bribed the umpires and so robbed my tribe unfairly of the prize,
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 16 (search)
His subsequent conduct, which I am now
going to describe, passes all limits; and indeed I should never have ventured to
arraign him today, had I not previously secured his immediate conviction in the
Assembly. The sacred apparel—for all apparel provided for use at a
festival I regard as being sacred until after it has been used—and the
golden crowns,which I ordered for the decoration of the chorus, he plotted to
destroy,men of Athens, by a
nocturnal raid on the premises of my goldsmith. And he did destroy them, though
not completely, for that was beyond his power. And no one can say that he ever
yet heard of anyone daring or perpetrating such an outrage in this city.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 17 (search)
But not content with this, men of
Athens, he actually corrupted
the trainer of my chorus; and if Telephanes, the flute-player, had not proved
the staunchest friend to me, if he had not seen through the fellow's game and
sent him about his business, if he had not felt it his duty to train the chorus
and weld them into shape himself, we could not have taken part in the
competition, Athenians; the chorus would have come in untrained and we should
have been covered with ignominy. Nor did his insolence stop even there. It was
so unrestrained that he bribed the crowned Archon himself; he banded the
choristers against me; he bawled and threatened, standing beside the umpires as
they took the oath he blocked the gangways from the wings,Rooms projecting R. and L. from the back-scene, and giving
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 19 (search)
These were the crimes and brutalities which Meidias
committed in connection with the festival against my fellow-tribesmen and
myself. It was for these, men of Athens, that I lodged my public plaint; and there are many
besides, of which I will describe to you immediately as many as I can. But I
have to tell of many other acts of unmitigated rascality and insolence, directed
against many of yourselves, and many daring crimes of this blackguard.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 23 (search)
Now I have much
to say also, men of Athens, about
the wrongs which he inflicted on others, as I told you at the beginning of my
speech, and I have made a collection of his outrageous and insulting acts, which
you shall hear in a moment. The collection was indeed an easy matter, for the
victims themselves applied to me.There is
obviously some dislocation here. The evidence of the goldsmith, which
concerns the outrages specified in the probolh/, should have come, with the other depositions, after
Dem. 21.18. Dem.
21.23, in its present place, with its reference to the beginning
of the speech, is nonsense. It is a repetition of Dem.
21.19 and Dem. 21.20, being an
introduction to a description of outrages committed
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 36 (search)
I have been told that Meidias goes about inquiring and
collecting examples of people who have at any time been assaulted, and that
these people are going to give evidence and describe their experiences to you;
for instance, men of Athens, the
Chairman for the day who is said to have been struck by Polyzelus in your court,
the judge who was lately struck when trying to rescue the flute-girl, and
similar cases. He imagines that if he can point to many other victims of serious
assault, you will be less indignant at the assault committed upon me!
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 46 (search)
Indeed he went to such
extreme lengths that even if a slave was assaulted, he granted him the same
right of bringing a public action. He thought that he ought to look, not at the
rank of the sufferer, but at the nature of the act, and when he found the act
unjustifiable, he would not give it his sanction either in regard to a slave or
in any other case. For nothing, men of Athens, nothing in the world is more intolerable than a
personal outrage, nor is there anything that more deserves your resentment. Read
me the actual law with regard to it. There is nothing like hearing the law's own
words.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 51 (search)
Now if
I had not been chorus-master, men of Athens, when I was thus maltreated by Meidias, it is only the
personal insult that one would have condemned; but under the circumstances I
think one would be justified in condemning also the impiety of the act. You
surely realize that all your choruses and hymns to the god are sanctioned, not
only by the regulations of the Dionysia, but also by the oracles, in all of
which, whether given at Delphi or at
Dodona, you will find a solemn
injunction to the State to set up dances after the ancestral custom, to fill the
streets with the savour of sacrifice, and to wear garlands.