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Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 54 (search)
The sequel too, men of Athens, is worth hearing. What you have just heard from
Lycurgus is serious, or, rather, impossible to exaggerate, but the rest will be
found to rival it and to be of the same character. Not content with abandoning
his father in prison when he quitted Eretria, as you have heard from Phaedrus, this unnatural
ruffian refused to bury him when he died, and would not refund the expenses to
those who did bury him, but actually brought a law-suit against them.
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 63 (search)
Are you not
ashamed then, men of Athens, if the
men who had been thrown into prison for villainy and vice thought him so much
more villainous than them selves that they forbade all intercourse with him,
while you are ready to admit him to intercourse with yourselves, though the laws
have placed him outside the pale of the constitution? What did you find to
commend in his life or conduct? Which of all his actions has failed to move your
indignation? Is he not impious, blood-thirsty, unclean, and a black mailer?
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 82 (search)
What law do you think Aristogeiton applies to all
other men, and what are his wishes concerning them? Does he wish to see them
enjoying prosperity, happiness and good fame? If so, what becomes of his
livelihood? For he thrives on the misfortunes of others. Therefore he likes to
see everyone involved in trials, lawsuits and vile charges. That is the crop he
sows; that is the trade he plies. Men of Athens, what sort of man deserves to be called the complete
villain, the thrice-accursed, the common foe, the universal enemy, against whom
one prays that the earth may neither yield him fruit nor receive him after
death? Is it not such a man as this? That is my opinion.
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 89 (search)
And that is just how you, men
of Athens, live in this community on
humane and brotherly principles, one class watching the proceedings of the
unfortunate in such a way that, as the saying runs, “seeing, they see
not; hearing, do not hear”; while the others by their behavior show
that they are both on their guard and alive to a sense of shame. Hence it is
that that general harmony, which is the source of all our blessings, is firmly
established in our ci
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 92 (search)
Therefore the one thing left, men of
Athens, for those who wish to
get rid of this man, now that they can charge him with a clear and manifest
offence against the laws, is, if possible, to punish him with death, or, if not,
to impose such a money fine as he will not be able to pay. For depend upon it,
there is no other way to be rid of him.
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 95 (search)
Surely,
then, to admonish such a fellow is madness. A man who never yielded or shrank
before the storm of protest with which the whole Assembly admonishes those who
offend it, would readily heed the protest of an individual! His case is
incurable, men of Athens, quite
incurable. Just as physicians, when they detect a cancer or an ulcer or some
other incurable growth, cauterize it or cut it away, so you ought all to unite
in exterminating this monster. Cast him out of your city; destroy him. Take your
precautions in time and do not wait for the evil consequences, which I pray may
never fall either on individuals or on the community.
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, section 96 (search)
Let me put it in this way. Perhaps none of you has ever been
bitten by an adder or a tarantula, and I hope he never may be. All the same,
whenever you see such creatures, you promptly kill them all. In just the same
way, men of Athens, whenever you see
a false accuser, a man with the venom of a viper in his nature, do not wait for
him to bite one of you, but always let the man who comes across him exact
punishment.
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 2, section 1 (search)
It has been
conclusively proved, men of Athens,
that the defendant, Aristogeiton, is a state-debtor and disfranchised, and that
the laws expressly forbid all such to address the Assembly. But it is your duty
to restrain and check all law-breakers, but especially those who hold office and
take part in public affairs,
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 2, section 13 (search)
For
the one was fair and equal for all citizens alike, but this is unfair and brings
profit to you alone of all the people of Athens. The first was intended to prevent a peace by which one
man would have been put in control of the whole government; the effect of this
vote will be that you have received authority to transgress with impunity the
decisions of the jury and the laws handed down by our ancestors—to do,
in fact, whatever you please
Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 2, section 15 (search)
I can see that you, men of
Athens, are of this opinion in
your own behalf, for you have ere now decided many such
“informations” laid against private men. Yet is it not all
wrong that in your own case you should so scrupulously examine the laws, but in
the case of these mischief-makers, who annoy everyone alike and pretend to be
superior to the rest, you should display such indifferen