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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30.
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Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 46
Indeed he went to such
extreme lengths that even if a slave was assaulted, he granted him the same
right of bringing a public action. He thought that he ought to look, not at the
rank of the sufferer, but at the nature of the act, and when he found the act
unjustifiable, he would not give it his sanction either in regard to a slave or
in any other case. For nothing, men of Athens, nothing in the world is more intolerable than a
personal outrage, nor is there anything that more deserves your resentment. Read
me the actual law with regard to it. There is nothing like hearing the law's own
words.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 51
Now if
I had not been chorus-master, men of Athens, when I was thus maltreated by Meidias, it is only the
personal insult that one would have condemned; but under the circumstances I
think one would be justified in condemning also the impiety of the act. You
surely realize that all your choruses and hymns to the god are sanctioned, not
only by the regulations of the Dionysia, but also by the oracles, in all of
which, whether given at Delphi or at
Dodona, you will find a solemn
injunction to the State to set up dances after the ancestral custom, to fill the
streets with the savour of sacrifice, and to wear garlands.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 54
Besides these
oracles, men of Athens, there are
many others addressed to our city, and excellent oracles they are. Now what
conclusion ought you to draw from them? That while they prescribe the sacrifices
to the gods indicated in each oracle, to every oracle that is published they add
the injunction to set up dances and to wear garlands after the manner of our
ancestors.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 67
I suppose what tends to make everyone public-spirited
and liberal with his money is the reflection that under a democracy each man has
his share of just and equal rights. Now I, men of Athens, was deprived of those rights
through this man's acts, and, quite apart from the insults I endured, I was
robbed of my victory. Yet I shall prove to all of you beyond a doubt that
Meidias, without committing any outrageous offence, without insulting or
striking me, had it in his power both to cause me trouble and to display his
public spirit to you in a legitimate way, so that I should not be able to open
my lips against him.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 69
As it was, he did not adopt
this course, by which he might have done honor to the people, nor did he work
off his high spirits in this way. No; I was his target, I who in my madness, men
of Athens,—for it may be
madness to engage in something beyond one's power perhaps in my ambition,
volunteered for chorus-master. He harassed me with a persecution so undisguised
and so brutal that neither the sacred costumes nor the chorus nor at last even
my own person was safe from his hands
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 72
For it was not the blow but the indignity that roused the
anger. To be struck is not the serious thing for a free man, serious though it
is, but to be struck in wanton insolence. Many things, Athenians, some of which
the victim would find it difficult to put into words, may be done by the
striker—by gesture, by look, by tone; when he strikes in wantonness or
out of enmity; with the fist or on the cheek. These are the things that provoke
men and make them beside themselves, if they are unused to insult. No
description, men of Athens, can
bring the outrage as vividly before the hearers as it appears in truth and
reality to the victim and to the spectators
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 104
But I will now
relate a serious act of cruelty committed by him, men of Athens, which I at least regard as not
merely a personal wrong but a public sacrilege. For when a grave criminal charge
was hanging over that unlucky wretch, Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, at first,
Athenians, Meidias went round the Market-place and ventured to spread impious
and atrocious statements about me to the effect that I was the author of the
deed; next, when this device failed, he went to the relations of the dead man,
who were bringing the charge of murder against Aristarchus, and offered them
money if they would accuse me of the crime. He let neither religion nor piety
nor any other consideration stand in the way of this wild proposal: he shrank
from nothing.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 106
My own opinion, men of Athens, is that these acts constitute him
my murderer; that while at the Dionysia his outrages were confined to my
equipment, my person, and my expenditure, his subsequent course of action shows
that they were aimed at everything else that is mine, my citizenship, my family,
my privileges, my hopes. Had a single one of his machinations succeeded, I
should have been robbed of all that I had, even of the right to be buried in the
homeland. What does this mean, gentlemen of the jury? It means that if treatment
such as I have suffered is to be the fate of any man who tries to right himself
when outraged by Meidias in defiance of all the laws, then it will be best for
us, as is the way among barbarians, to grovel at the oppressor's feet and make
no attempt at self-defence
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 108
While the clerk is finding the statute, men
of Athens, I wish to address a few
words to you. I appeal to all of you jurymen, in the name of Zeus and all the
gods, that whatever you hear in court, you may listen to it with this in your
minds: What would one of you do, if he were the victim of this treatment, and
what anger would he feel on his own account against the author of it? Seriously
distressed as I was at the insults that I endured in the discharge of my public
service, I am far more seriously distressed and indignant at what ensued.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 21, section 110
All that, men of
Athens, is just what has been
done by Meidias. He brought against me a false charge of murder, in which, as
the facts proved, I was in no way concerned; he indicted me for desertion,
having himself on three occasions deserted his post; and as for the troubles in
Euboea—why, I nearly forgot to mention them!-troubles for which his
bosom-friend Plutarchus was responsible, he contrived to have the blame laid at
my door, before it became plain to everyone that Plutarchus was at the bottom of
the whole business