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Aeschines, Letters, 1.90-1.91
nan For if in the future, as always in the past, this practice is going to be carried on in secret, and in lonely places and in private houses, and if the man who best knows the facts, but has defiled one of his fellow citizens, is to be liable to the severest punishment if he testifies to the truth, while the man on trial, who has been denounced by the testimony of his own life and of the truth, is to demand that he be judged, not by the facts that are notorious, but by the testimony of witnesses, then the law is done away with, and so is the truth, while a plain path is marked out by which the worst wrongdoers may escape.
nan For what foot-pad or adulterer or assassin, or what man who has committed the greatest crimes, but has done it secretly, will be brought to justice? For whereas such of these criminals as are caught in the act are instantly punished with death, if they acknowledge the crime, those who have done the act secretly and deny their guilt, are tried in the courts, and the truth can be determined by circumstantial evidence only.

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

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1. Xenophon, Memoirs, 2.1.22 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.1.22. and sat pondering which road to take. And there appeared two women of great stature making towards him. The one was fair to see and of high bearing; and her limbs were adorned with purity, her eyes with modesty; sober was her figure, and her robe was white. The other was plump and soft, with high feeding. Her face was made up to heighten its natural white and pink, her figure to exaggerate her height. Open-eyed was she; and dressed so as to disclose all her charms. Now she eyed herself; anon looked whether any noticed her; and often stole a glance at her own shadow.
2. Aeschines, Letters, 1.39-1.40, 1.44, 1.49, 1.59, 1.64-1.65, 1.70, 1.72, 1.77-1.79, 1.87-1.88, 1.91, 1.94, 1.112, 1.114, 1.176-1.177, 1.192-1.193, 2.23 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Aeschines, Or., 1.39-1.40, 1.42, 1.44-1.50, 1.54, 1.59-1.60, 1.67, 1.69-1.70, 1.72, 1.81, 1.87, 1.112, 1.114-1.115, 2.23
4. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.98, 21.220-21.222, 21.224-21.225, 21.227, 24.8, 24.101, 25.53, 53.1, 56.48, 59.1, 59.15, 59.126
5. Lysias, Orations, 6.54, 12.35, 15.9, 27.7

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschines	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
argument,strategies of	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138
demosthenes	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
education	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
gymnasia	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
heracles	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
law,athenian.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138, 226
philosophy	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
phēmē	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
procedural law	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138
property	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
public and private litigation.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138, 226
punishment.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 226
revenge	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 226
rhetoric	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
rule of law.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 226
self-help	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 226
seriousness	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48
summary procedures'	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 226
timarchus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 48