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Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 214 (search)
If, men of Athens, at the time of the plaint the people, after hearing the
facts, had acquitted Meidias, it would not be so hard to bear: one might console
oneself with the fancy that the assault had never been made, or that it was not
a profanation of the festival, and so on.
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 219 (search)
Furthermore, it was not I alone, men of Athens, that he then, in his intention, struck and insulted,
when he acted as he did, but all who may be supposed less able than I am to
obtain satisfaction for themselves. If you were not all beaten, if you were not
all insulted while acting as choir-masters, you realize of course that you
cannot all be choir-masters at the same time, and that no one could possibly
assault all of you at once with a single fist.
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 4 (search)
If I could
see any straightforward defence that he could offer to these charges, I would
not make any reference to them; but I am quite certain that he cannot have any
simple and honest plea to put forward, but will try to hoodwink you, inventing
malicious answers to each charge and so leading you astray. For he is a skillful
rhetorician, men of Athens, and has
devoted all his life to that one study. Therefore, that you may not be deceived
and persuaded to vote contrary to the spirit of your oath and to acquit a man
whom you have every reason to punish, pray attend to what I shall say, so that
when you have heard me, you may have the right reply to every argument that he
will advance.
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 11 (search)
For the law, that the Council should
not ask for the reward if they have not built the war ships, was framed in that
way, men of Athens, to prevent the
possibility of the people being influenced or misled. The legislator held that
the question should not depend on the abilities of the speakers, but that
whatever he could devise that was at once just and expedient for the people,
should be fixed by law. “You have not built the ships? Then don't ask
for the reward.” Where the law does not permit the asking, does it not
absolutely forbid the givi
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 12 (search)
Now there is another question, men of Athens, which is worth going into. Why is
it that when the Council have performed all their other duties satisfactorily,
and no one has any complaint to make, yet, if they have not built the ships,
they are not allowed to ask for the reward? You will find that this stringent
enactment is in the interests of the people. For I suppose no one would deny
that all that has happened to our city, in the past or in the present, whether
good or otherwise—I avoid an unpleasant term—has resulted in
the one case from the possession, and in the other from the want, of warships.
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 16 (search)
Therefore, men of Athens, seeing
that warships have such weight in either scale, you nave done rightly to set
this strict limit to the Council's claim to the reward. For if they should
discharge all their other duties satisfactorily, but fail to build these ships,
by which we gained our power at the first and by which we retain it today, all
their other services are of no avail, for it is the safety of the whole State
that must be ensured for the people before every thing. Now the defendant is so
obsessed with the idea that he can make any speech or proposal he wishes, that
though the Council has discharged its other duties in the way that you have
heard, but has not built the warships, he moved to grant them their reward.
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 20 (search)
But if, as
the law says and as your oath enjoins, you sternly and absolutely reject their
excuses, and make it clear that you have withheld the reward because they have
not built the ships, then every Council, men of Athens, will deliver to you the ships duly built, because they
will see that in your eyes everything else is of less consequence than the law.
Now I shall show you clearly that no other human being is responsible for the
shortage of ships; for the Council, having made the law null and void, elected
this treasurer themselves.The treasurer should
have been elected by the people; the Council, by appointing him illegally,
made themselves responsible for his defalcations. The corruption of this
passage is as old as Harpocration. Mss. have a(uth=| or a(uth/n . With the
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 30 (search)
Now it is worth your while, men of Athens, to study too the character of
Solon, who framed this law, and to observe what care he took of the constitution
in all the laws, how much more zealous indeed he was for the constitution than
for the matter on which he was legislating. This may be seen in many ways, but
especially from this law, which forbids persons guilty of prostitution to make
speeches or to propose measures. For he saw that the majority of you do not
avail yourselves of your right to speak, so that the prohibition seemed no great
hardship, and he could have laid down many harsher penalties, if his object had
been the chastisement of these offenders.
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 37 (search)
And yet, even if we
grant freely that the whole Council is on its trial, reflect how much more
advantage you will gain if you condemn Androtion, than if you do not. If you
acquit him, the talkers will rule in the Council chamber, but if you convict
him, the ordinary members. For when the majority see that they have lost the
crown through the misconduct of the orators, they will not leave the transaction
of business in their hands, but will depend on themselves for the best advice.
If this comes to pass, and if you are once rid of the old gang of orators, then,
men of Athens, you will see
everything done as it ought to be. For this, if for no other, reason you ought
to convict.
Demosthenes, Against Androtion, section 43 (search)
But I must first ask you,
men of Athens, to reflect that the
question you are sworn to decide is not this, but whether his proposal was in
accordance with the laws. Next reflect that it is outrageous in one who charges
others with violating the constitution to claim exemption from punishment for
his own more serious violations; because it is obviously more serious to propose
an unconstitutional decree than to fail to pay the property-tax.