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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30.
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Antissa (search for this): speech 23, section 132
and, on his refusal, he made an
attack in person on the strongholds, taking with him the forces collected by
Iphicrates as well as his barbarian troops, and engaging the services of
Charidemus. He reduced Iphicrates to such helplessness that he withdrew to
Antissa, and afterwards to
Drys, and lived there; for he did not think he could honorably return to you,
whom he had slighted for the sake of a Thracian and a barbarian. On the other
hand, he thought it dangerous to remain at the court of a king whom he had found
so negligent of his safety.
Aphidna (search for this): speech 21, section 107
However, to prove
that my statements are true and that these things have actually been perpetrated
by this shameless ruffian, please call the witnesses.Witnesses[We,
Dionysius of Aphidna and
Antiphilus of Paeania, when our kinsman Nicodemus had met with a violent
death at the hands of Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, prosecuted
Aristarchus for murder. Learning this, Meidias, who is now being brought to
trial by Demosthenes, for whom we appear, offered us small sums of money to
let Aristarchus go unharmed, and to substitute the name of Demosthenes in
the indictment for murder.]Now let me have the law concerning bribery.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 23, section 1
Men of
Athens, I beg that none of you
will imagine that I have come here to arraign the defendant Aristocrates from
any motive of private malice, or that I am thrusting myself so eagerly into a
quarrel because I have detected some small and trivial blunder, but if my
judgement and my views are at all right, the purpose of all my exertions in this
case is that you may hold the Chersonese securely, and may not for the second time be cheated
out of the possession of that country.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 26, section 1
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,
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 23, section 100
I say that I do not expect
that Aristocrates will be able to deny that he has moved a decree in open
violation of all the laws; but before now, men of Athens, I have seen a man contesting an
indictment for illegal measures, who, though convicted by law, made an attempt
to argue that his proposal had been to the public advantage, and insisted
strongly on that point,—a simple-minded argument, surely, if it was
not an impudent one
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 24, section 101
—But in fact he went out of his
way to avoid the statutes of tax-farming; and, because Euctemon's decree did
authorize recovery from losers of suits according to those statutes, for that
very reason he omitted to add the clause. In that manner, by cancelling the
existing punishment of public defaulters without substituting any other, he
makes havoc of all our business,—the Assembly, the cavalry, the
Council, the sacred funds, the civil revenue. And for that offence, men of
Athens, if you are wise men, he
will be chastised and treated as he deserves, and so made an example to deter
others from bringing in such la
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 23, section 104
And that you may not be quite surprised to hear that decrees
made in Athens have so powerful an
effect, I will remind you of a piece of history within the knowledge of all of
you. After the revoltIn 361; See Grote, chap.
80. of Miltocythes against
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 24, section 106
Much alike
these two legislators, Solon and Timocrates,—are they not, men of
Athens? Solon aims at the
reformation of the living and of the unborn; Timocrates points the scoundrels of
the past to a road by which they may escape justice, and invents a scheme of
impunity for malefactors present and malefactors to come, providing deliverance
and reprieve for past, present, and future sinners alike