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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30. You can also browse the collection for Athens (Greece) or search for Athens (Greece) in all documents.
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Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 129 (search)
and yet, when you had
honored him with the office of ambassador, robbed the Goddess at Athens of her tithe of the plunder he took
from your enemies? Was it not he who, being appointed treasurer at the
Acropolis, stole from that place those prizes of victory which our ancestors
carried off from the barbarians, the throne with silver feet, and Mardonius's
scimitar, which weighed three hundred darics? These exploits, however, are so
celebrated that they are known to everybody. But in everything else is he not a
man of violence? Aye, he has no equal for that.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 131 (search)
You must
punish crime, not encourage it by your own teaching. Do not let them make a
grievance of going to prison with your money in their pockets, but bring them
under the yoke of law. People convicted under the alien acts do not think
themselves aggrieved when they are kept in yonder buildingoi)/khma is a common
euphemism for desmwth/rion. There seems to
have been only one prison at Athens, and this passage suggests that it was in view of
the Agora; but tou/tw| is not necessarily
deictic. until the trial for false evidence is over; they simply stay
there without expecting to get the freedom of the streets by putting in bail.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 137 (search)
Then if it was right that for them the
old-established laws should be operative, and that they should be punished in
accordance with the existing laws, can it be right that for the sake of
Androtion, Glaucetes, and Melanopus, a brand-new statute should be
made,—for men who have been found guilty and condemned by verdict in
pursuance of old-established laws, and who are declared to be detaining sacred
and public moneys? Will not Athens
be a laughing-stock if she is discovered enacting laws for the deliverance of
temple robbers
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 149 (search)
The Oath of the HeliastsI
will give verdict in accordance with the statutes and decrees of the People
of Athens and of the Council of
Five-hundred. I will not vote for tyranny or oligarchy. If any man try to
subvert the Athenian democracy or make any speech or any proposal in
contravention thereof I will not comply. I will not allow private debts to
be cancelled, nor lands nor houses belonging to Athenian citizens to be
redistributed. I will not restore exiles or persons under sentence of death.
I will not expel, nor suffer another to expel, persons here resident in
contravention of the statutes and decrees of the Athenian People or of the
Council.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 155 (search)
It is
also proper that you should be informed how craftily he laid his plans to injure
you. Having observed that everybody, whether in public life or outside it,
constantly attributes all the prosperity of Athens to her laws, he began to consider how he could destroy
those laws without detection, and how, even if caught in the act, he might be
thought to have done nothing formidable or presumptuous.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 162 (search)
With the help of this man he has stolen a
great deal of your property, for he had included in his decree an order that the
police-magistrates, the receivers, and their clerks, should all follow his
instructions. Taking these officers with him, he proceeded to invade your
dwelling-houses; and you, Timocrates, were the only one of his colleagues,
though there were ten of them, who went with him. And let no one suppose that I
am hinting that payment ought not to be exacted from defaulters. It ought; but
how? As the law directs, and disinterestedly; that is the democratic way. Men of
Athens, you got far less benefit
from the five talents that this man collected, than injury from the practices
that he introduced into your government.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 165 (search)
What do you think of this, men of
Athens? A poor man, or, for the
matter of that, a rich man, who had spent a great deal and was, perhaps, in a
certain sense short of money, was not only afraid to show himself in the
market-place, but found it unsafe even to stay at home. And to think that
Androtion was responsible for those fears,—Androtion, whose past life
and conduct disqualify him for seeking satisfaction at law even for himself,
much more for imposing Property-taxes for the State
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 170 (search)
Nevertheless they will allege that both then and now they were
acting in your interests. Will you then accept their exploits as due to zeal in
your interests? Or will you indulgently tolerate the handiwork of their audacity
and wickedness? No, men of Athens;
you ought to abhor such men rather than liberate them. He who claims your
indulgence as having acted for the good of the commonwealth must be shown to
possess the spirit of the common wealth.
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 174 (search)
—Do you wish me to
tell you the reason, men of Athens?
These men share in the frauds that certain persons practise on you, and they
also get their pickings from the collection of revenue. In their insatiable
greed they reap a double harvest from the State. For it is not an easier matter
to make enemies of a multitude of petty offenders than of a few big offenders;
neither of course is it a more popular thing to have an eye for the sins of the
many than for the sins of the few
Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, section 180 (search)
Again, men of Athens, consider those glorious and
much-admired inscriptions that he has obliterated for all time, and the strange
and blasphemous inscriptions that he has written in their stead. You all, I
suppose, used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns:
“The Allies crowned the People for valor and righteousness,”
or “The Allies dedicated to the Goddess of Athens a prize of or “The Allies dedicated to the Goddess of Athens a prize of victory”; or,
from the several states of the Alliance, “Such-and-such a city crowned
the People by whom they were delivered,” or “The liberated
Euboeans,” for example, “crowned the People,” or
again “Conon from the
sea-fight with the Lacedaemonians,” “Chabrias from the
sea-fight off Naxo