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Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 80 (search)
All this is
ancient history, though I expect some of you remember it, for all Athens heard of the challenge and of the plot
they then hatched and of their brutal behavior. As for me, being quite alone in
the world and a mere lad, I did not want to lose the property that was still in
the hands of my guardians, and I expected to obtain, not the trifle that I was
actually able to recover, but all that I knew I had been robbed of; so I gave
them twenty minas, the sum which they had paid for the performance of their
trierarchy by deputy. Such was the scandalous treatment that I received at their
hands.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 83 (search)
Hear now what
he has done, men of Athens, in the
matter of the legal action and observe his insolent and overbearing conduct on
each occasion. In that action—I mean the one in which I obtained a
verdict against him—the arbitrator assigned to me was Strato of Phalerum, a man of small means and
no experience, but in other respects quite a good fellow; but his appointment
proved the unhappy man's ruin—a ruin undeserved, unjust, and in every
way scanda
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 87 (search)
he induced the presiding arbitrator to put it to the vote
contrary to all the laws, because Meidias had not appended the name of a single
witness to the summons; he denounces Strato in his absence and in the absence of
witnesses, and gets him struck off the roll of arbitrators and disfranchised.
And so a citizen of Athens, because
Meidias lost his suit by default, has been deprived of all his civic rights, and
has been irrevocably disfranchised; and it is unsafe for him to bring an action
against Meidias when wronged, or to act as arbitrator for him, or even, it
seems, to walk the same street with him.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 90 (search)
But of course he could have moved for a fresh trial on the ground of nullity,
and so made me the object of his litigation as at the first. But no; that was
not his game. To save him from defending a suit in which the penalty was fixed
by law at ten minas—the suit in which he neglected to
apppear—to save him from paying the penalty if guilty or if innocent,
a citizen of Athens must needs be
disfranchised, and must obtain neither pardon nor right of defence nor any sort
of equitable treatment, privileges extended even to those whose guilt is
establish
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 98 (search)
If not, what have you to say, gentlemen of
the jury? What fair and honorable excuse, in heaven's name, can you find for
him? Is it because he is a ruffian and a blackguard? That is true enough, but
surely, men of Athens, your duty is to
hate such creatures, not to screen them. Is it because he is wealthy? But you
will find that his wealth was the main cause of his insolence, so that your duty
is to cut off the resources from which his insolence springs, rather than spare
him for the sake of those resources; for to allow such a reckless and abominable
creature to have such wealth at his command is to supply him with resources to
use against yourselves.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 102 (search)
Therefore,
men of Athens, I think that even if I
had no other charge to bring against Meidias, and even if what I shall allege
hereafter were not more serious than what I have already said, you would be
justified, in view of my statements, in condemning him and imposing the utmost
penalty of the law. Yet the tale is not complete, and I think I shall not be at
a loss what to say next, so lavishly has he furnished me with matter for
indictment.