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Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 6 (search)
But to forestall any surprise
you may feel that I, who can claim to have hitherto lived a quiet life, should
now be making my appearance in actions at law and public prosecutions, I desire
to offer a brief explanation, which will not be irrelevant to the issue. Men of
Athens, I once fell out with a
worthless, quarrelsome, unprincipled fellow, with whom in the end the whole city
also fell out,—I mean Androtion
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 17 (search)
Before speaking of the law that I have indicted, I wish to give
you a brief account of the existing statutes under which indictments of this
kind are laid; for after hearing this account you will find the information
useful for the rest of my speech. In our laws at present in force, men of
Athens, every condition that
must be observed when new statutes are to be enacted is laid down clearly and
with precision.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 58 (search)
Then what are we to say for ourselves, men of
Athens, if we allow this law to
be confirmed? That our tribunals, composed under popular government of men who
have taken the judicial oath, are guilty of the same iniquities as the tribunals
of the Thirty Tyrants? Preposterous! That they give righteous judgements? Then
what reason can we allege for enacting a law to reverse those judgements? Unless
indeed we plead that we were out of our minds. We have no other excuse to
offer.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 65 (search)
Yet from what gain do
you think that such a man would restrain his hand, or what would he hesitate to
do for lucre's sake, when he did not disdain to legislate in contradiction of
himself, though the laws forbid contradiction even of others? It seems to me
that, so far as effrontery goes, such a man is ready to do anything. Inasmuch,
therefore, as the laws provide that evil doers of other kinds shall upon
confession be punished without trial, you, men of Athens, have a right to give your verdict
against this man without allowing him to speak or giving him a hearing, now that
he has been caught in the act of maltreating the laws; for by proposing this law
in contravention of the former law, he has pleaded guilty.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 66 (search)
That the law he has proposed
is contrary to the statutes just read, to those which I cited before, and, I may
almost say, to every law in Athens,
is now, I suppose, manifest to every one of you. I really wonder what he will
have the face to say about those statutes. He cannot show that his law does not
contradict the others; and he will not be able to convince you that he is a
simple layman who did not know what he was doing through lack of experience,
because for a long time past he has been celebrated for composing and
introducing laws at so much apiece. Moreover, there is another course that is
not open to him:
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 94 (search)
I presume that our reply to the Hellenic world will
be: “We have a law here,—the statute of Timocrates. Kindly
wait till the ninth presidency; then after that we will start.” No
other excuse is left. And if you have to fight in self-defence, do you really
think that the enemy will wait for the evasions and rogueries of every scoundrel
in Athens? If our city enacts laws
for her own discomfiture, laws exactly contrary to her own interests, do you
think she will ever be able to play her true part in the w
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 95 (search)
Men of Athens, we may well be satisfied if, with everything in good
order, and with no such law as this, we hold advantage over our enemies, keep
pace with the swift emergencies and sudden chances of warfare, and are never
behindhand.—But if you, sir, distinguish yourself as the author of a
law that makes havoc of everything by which our city has earned the respect and
admiration of the world, is there any punishment that you do not deserve to
suffer
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 96 (search)
Moreover, men of Athens, the law
shatters our financial system, both sacred and civil; and I will tell you how.
You have a law in operation, as good a law as ever was enacted, that holders of
sacred or civil moneys shall pay the money in to the Council house, and that,
failing such payment, the Council shall recover the money by enforcing the
statutes applicable to tax-farmers;
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 101 (search)
—But in fact he went out of his
way to avoid the statutes of tax-farming; and, because Euctemon's decree did
authorize recovery from losers of suits according to those statutes, for that
very reason he omitted to add the clause. In that manner, by cancelling the
existing punishment of public defaulters without substituting any other, he
makes havoc of all our business,—the Assembly, the cavalry, the
Council, the sacred funds, the civil revenue. And for that offence, men of
Athens, if you are wise men, he
will be chastised and treated as he deserves, and so made an example to deter
others from bringing in such la
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 106 (search)
Much alike
these two legislators, Solon and Timocrates,—are they not, men of
Athens? Solon aims at the
reformation of the living and of the unborn; Timocrates points the scoundrels of
the past to a road by which they may escape justice, and invents a scheme of
impunity for malefactors present and malefactors to come, providing deliverance
and reprieve for past, present, and future sinners alike