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Aeschines, Letters, 1.19-1.20


nanAnd what does he say? “If any Athenian,” he says, “shall have prostituted his person, he shall not be permitted to become one of the nine archons,” because, no doubt, that official wears the wreath;The myrtle wreath was worn as sign of the sacred character of the office, and it protected the person from assault.“nor to discharge the office of priest,” as being not even clean of body; “nor shall he act as an advocate for the state,” he says, “nor shall ever hold any office whatsoever, at home or abroad,whether filled by lot or by election; nor shall he be a herald or an ambassador”


nan—nor shall he prosecute men who have served as ambassadors, nor shall he be a hired slanderer— “nor ever address senate or assembly,” not even though he be the most eloquent orator in Athens. And if any one contrary to these prohibitions, the lawgiver has provided for criminal process on the charge of prostitution, and has prescribed the heaviest penalties therefor. Read to the jury this law also, that you may know, gentlemen, in the face of what established laws of yours, so good and so moral, Timarchus has had the effrontery to speak before the people—a man whose character is so notorious.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aristophanes, Clouds, 309-313, 308 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

308. εὐστέφανοί τε θεῶν θυσίαι θαλίαι τε
2. Aristophanes, Wasps, 578 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

578. παίδων τοίνυν δοκιμαζομένων αἰδοῖα πάρεστι θεᾶσθαι.
3. Lysias, Orations, 16.20, 21.1-21.2, 26.8 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.2.35, 2.2.13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.2.35. Since you are ignorant, Socrates, said Charicles in an angry tone, we put our order into language easier to understand. You may not hold any converse whatever with the young. Well then, said Socrates, that there may be no question raised about my obedience, please fix the age limit below which a man is to be accounted young. So long, replied Charicles, as he is not permitted to sit in the Council, because as yet he lacks wisdom. You shall not converse with anyone who is under thirty. 2.2.13. And yet, when you are resolved to cultivate these, you don’t think courtesy is due to your mother, who loves you more than all? Don’t you know that even the state ignores all other forms of ingratitude and pronounces no judgment on them, Cyropaedia I. ii. 7. caring nothing if the recipient of a favour neglects to thank his benefactor, but inflicts penalties on the man who is discourteous to his parents and rejects him as unworthy of office, holding that it would be a sin for him to offer sacrifices on behalf of the state and that he is unlikely to do anything else honourably and rightly? Aye, and if one fail to honour his parents’ graves, the state inquires into that too, when it examines the candidates for office.
5. Aeschines, Letters, 1.14, 1.20, 1.40, 1.72, 1.87, 1.188, 3.18 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 8.4, 41.2, 57.4, 63.3 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Aristotle, Politics, 1322b27, 1322b28, 1322b29, 1322b26 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.261, 24.151, 27.5, 34.39, 58.27 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Plutarch, Solon, 8.2, 19.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

8.2. and a report was given out to the city by his family that he showed signs of madness. He then secretly composed some elegiac verses, and after rehearsing them so that he could say them by rote, he sallied out into the market-place of a sudden, with a cap upon his head. After a large crowd had collected there, he got upon the herald’s stone and recited the poem which begins:— Behold in me a herald come from lovely Salamis, With a song in ordered verse instead of a harangue. Only six more verses are preserved ( Fragments 1-3, Bergk ). They contain reproaches of the Athenians for abandoning Salamis, and an exhortation to go and fight for it. 19.1. After he had established the council of the Areiopagus, consisting of those who had been archons year by year (and he himself was a member of this body since he had been archon), he observed that the common people were uneasy and bold in consequence of their release from debt, and therefore established another council besides, consisting of four hundred men, one hundred chosen from each of the four tribes. Cf. Aristot. Const. Ath. 8.4 . These were to deliberate on public matters before the people did, and were not to allow any matter to come before the popular assembly without such previous deliberation.
10. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.168-7.169 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

7.168. 5. CLEANTHESCleanthes, son of Phanias, was a native of Assos. This man, says Antisthenes in his Successions of Philosophers, was at first a pugilist. He arrived in Athens, as some people say, with four drachmas only, and meeting with Zeno he studied philosophy right nobly and adhered to the same doctrines throughout. He was renowned for his industry, being indeed driven by extreme poverty to work for a living. Thus, while by night he used to draw water in gardens, by day he exercised himself in arguments: hence the nickname Phreantles or Well-lifter was given him. He is said to have been brought into court to answer the inquiry how so sturdy a fellow as he made his living, and then to have been acquitted on producing as his witnesses the gardener in whose garden he drew water 7.169. and the woman who sold the meal which he used to crush. The Areopagites were satisfied and voted him a donation of ten minas, which Zeno forbade him to accept. We are also told that Antigonus made him a present of three thousand drachmas. Once, as he was conducting some youths to a public spectacle, the wind blew his cloak aside and disclosed the fact that he wore no shirt, whereupon he was applauded by the Athenians, as is stated by Demetrius of Magnesia in his work on Men of the Same Name. This then also increased the admiration felt for him. There is another story that Antigonus when attending his lectures inquired of him why he drew water and received the reply, Is drawing water all I do? What? Do I not dig? What? Do I not water the garden? or undertake any other labour for the love of philosophy? For Zeno used to discipline him to this and bid him return him an obol from his wages.
11. Aeschines, Or., 1.19-1.20, 1.40, 1.72, 1.87

12. Andocides, Orations, 1.75

13. Andocides, Orations, 1.75

14. Epigraphy, Ig I, 105.34



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschines, method of citing laws Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
agora Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
aiskhines Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
archons, wearing crowns Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 175
archons pray and sacrifice for athens Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 97
areopagus Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 372
aristophanes, athens and festivals in Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 175
assembly, meeting place Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
assembly, proclamation and oral exchange Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
assembly (ekklesia) Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
boule (council) Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
council of the five hundred, composition Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
council of the five hundred, eligibility Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
council of the five hundred, frequency of sessions Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
council of the five hundred, meeting place Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
council of the five hundred, pay Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
council of the five hundred, prytaneis Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 45
decrees, quoted by orators Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
delphi, oracle Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
demosthenes Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
festivals Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 175
freedom, of speech Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 25
freedom Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 25
generals Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 97
grammateus, reads decrees Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
graphe paranomon, defeat at Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 25
hiera orgas, oracle on read aloud Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
hyperides, paraphrases the laws Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
inscriptions, locations of Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
lexiarkhikon grammateion Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
liturgy Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
magistrates, pray and sacrifice for athens Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 97
monoson, s. Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 25
morals, and law. Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 372
obligation, military Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 25
obligation, negotiation of Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
oracles, and hiera orgas Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
oral dissemination, of decrees and laws Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
parrhesia Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 25
prayers for athens Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 97
priests and priestesses, public Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 97
private life, regulation of Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 372
probouleusis Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) 127
registration, citizen Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
religion embedded' Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 97
sacred and secular Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 175
timarkhos Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32
xenophon Henderson, The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus (2020) 32