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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 Aristocrates, section 156 (search)
When he realized what trouble he was
in, and came to the conclusion that he would be reduced by famine, if by no
other means, he made the discovery, whether by suggestion or by his own wits,
that his only chance of salvation lay where there is salvation for everybody.
And where is that? In your good-nature, if that is the right term, men of
Athens,—or call it
what you will. Having reached that conclusion, he dispatched the letter to
you,—and it is worth your while to hear it read. His desire was, by
means of a promise to recover the Chersonesus for you, and on the pretence that such was also the
wish of Cephisodotus, as an enemy of Cotys and Iphicrates, to get a supply of
galleys from you, and so scuttle safely out of As
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 16 (search)
His subsequent conduct, which I am now
going to describe, passes all limits; and indeed I should never have ventured to
arraign him today, had I not previously secured his immediate conviction in the
Assembly. The sacred apparel—for all apparel provided for use at a
festival I regard as being sacred until after it has been used—and the
golden crowns,which I ordered for the decoration of the chorus, he plotted to
destroy,men of Athens, by a
nocturnal raid on the premises of my goldsmith. And he did destroy them, though
not completely, for that was beyond his power. And no one can say that he ever
yet heard of anyone daring or perpetrating such an outrage in this city.
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 Midias, section 160 (search)
But, mark you, he gave us a war-galley! I
am sure he will brag about that vessel. “I,” he will say,
“presented you with a trireme.” Now this is how you must
deal with him. If, men of Athens, he
gave it from patriotic motives, be duly grateful and pay him the thanks that
such a gift deserves. But do not give him a chance to air his insolence; that
must not be conceded as the price of any act or deed. If, on the other hand, it
is proved that his motive was cowardice and malingering, do not be led astray.
How then will you know? This too I will explain. I will tell you the story from
the start: it is not a lo
Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, section 160 (search)
Observe from
and to what points he crossed the straits; it was from Abydus to Sestus. Do you suppose that the
Abydenes and the Sestians would have admitted him, if they had not been privy to
his fraud, when he sent you that letter?—Now read to the jury the
letter itself.—Observe, men of Athens, with what extravagance of self-commendation he wrote to
you, telling you he had done this, and undertaking to do
that.—Read.
Letter
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 161 (search)
Voluntary
gifts were first introduced at Athens for the expedition to Euboea. Meidias was not one of those volunteers, but I was, and
my colleague was Philinus, the son of Nicostratus. There was a second call
subsequently for Olynthus. Meidias
was not one of those volunteers either. Yet surely the public-spirited man ought
to be found at his post on every occasion. We have now these voluntary gifts for
the third time, and this time he did make an offer. But how? Though present in
the Council when the gifts were being received, he made no offer then.
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 Aristocrates, section 163 (search)
Although, then, it is
abundantly clear that there is not a sincere word in all his professions of
attachment to Athens, yet, if it is
not already clear from these facts, it will be more evident in the light of
later events. Cotys, I am glad to say,—for he was your enemy, and a
bad man,—was killed by Pytho;
Cersobleptes, the present king, was a mere boy, and so were all the sons of
Cotys; and Charidemus had got control of affairs, because he was on the spot and
had a force at his back. Cephisodotus, the man to whom he sent the famous
letter, had arrived in command of an army, and so had the galleys, which were to
have rescued him, even without the consent of Artabazus, when his deliverance
was in dou
Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, section 164 (search)
Now what, men of Athens, was the conduct proper for a really
single-minded and friendly person, after the arrival of a
commander,—not one of those men whom he might have called jealous of
himself, but the recipient of his letter, a man whom he had chosen out of all
Athens as his special
friend,—with Cotys in his grave, and himself in supreme power? Was it
not to restore you himself, but the recipient of his letter, a man whom he had chosen out of all
Athens as his special
friend,—with Cotys in his grave, and himself in supreme power? Was it
not to restore your territory there and then? To cooperate with you in
establishing the king of Thrace? To
embrace the opportunity of exhibiting his friendly disposition towards you I
should say,