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Aeschines, Or., 1.128-1.130
nan to manifest and so far from being fabricated is this statement of mine, that you will find that both our city and our forefathers dedicated an altar to Common Report, as one of the greatest gods;The scholiast tells us that this altar was dedicated to commemorate news of a victory of Cimon's in Pamphylia, received at Athens the day the battle was fought. Paus. 1.17.1) attests the existence of the altar. and you will find that Homer again and again in the Iliad says, of a thing that has not yet come to pass, “Common Report came to the host;” and again you will find Euripides declaring that this god is able not only to make known the living, revealing their true characters, but the dead as well, when he says, “Common Report shows forth the good man, even though he be in the bowels of the earth;”
nan and Hesiod expressly represents her as a goddess, speaking in words that are very plain to those who are willing to understand, for he says, “But Common Report dies never, the voice that tongues of many men do utter. She also is divine.”The quotation from Hesiod is from Hes. WD 763 f.; that from Euripides is not found in any of the extant plays, nor do we find the Homeric phrase in the Iliad. Indeed, the word fh/mh does not occur in the Iliad, and it is found only three times in the Odyssey(Hom. Od. 2.35; Hom. Od. 20.100, Hom. Od. 20.105), where it is used of words of ominous meaning. You will find that all men whose lives have been decorous praise these verses of the poets. For all who are ambitious for honor from their fellows believe that it is from good report that fame will come to them. But men whose lives are shameful pay no honor to this god, for they believe that in her they have a deathless accuser.
nan Call to mind, therefore, fellow citizens, what common report you have been accustomed to hear in the case of Timarchus. The instant the name is spoken you ask, do you not, “What Timarchus do you mean? The prostitute?” Furthermore, if I had presented witnesses concerning any matter, you would believe me; if then I present the god as my witness, will you refuse to believe? But she is a witness against whom it would be impiety even to bring complaint of false testimony.

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

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1. Herodotus, Histories, 9.100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 9.100. The Greeks, having made all their preparations advanced their line against the barbarians. As they went, a rumor spread through the army, and a herald's wand was seen lying by the water-line. The rumor that ran was to the effect that the Greeks were victors over Mardonius' army at a battle in Boeotia. ,Now there are many clear indications of the divine ordering of things, seeing that a message, which greatly heartened the army and made it ready to face danger, arrived amongst the Greeks the very day on which the Persians' disaster at Plataea and that other which was to befall them at Mykale took place.
2. Aeschines, Letters, 1.70, 1.72, 1.78, 1.117, 1.125, 1.127-1.131, 1.166, 1.172-1.173, 1.175-1.176, 2.180 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Aeschines, Or., 1.70, 1.72, 1.119, 1.125-1.127, 1.129-1.131, 1.136, 1.166-1.167, 1.171-1.176, 2.180, 3.88, 3.135
4. Demosthenes, Orations, 40.53
5. Lysias, Orations, 6

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abuse,language of	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 58
achilles (and patroclus)	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
aeschines	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46, 53, 58
antiphon,anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
antiphon,apollodorus	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
arguments,religious,religious significance of	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69
asebia (impiety),of demosthenes	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 176
athens,and face-to-face society	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
athens,as surveillance culture	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
choregia/choregos	Spatharas (2019), Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens, 117
community,civic,religious	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69
cults,of pheme	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69, 176
daimon	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 176
deception,and topoi	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
deception,association with rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
deception,staged detections of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
democracy,athenian,and noble lies,and its oratory	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
demosthenes,and physiognomics	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
demosthenes,representation of deceit	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
demosthenes,works,against stephanus	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
demosthenes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46, 53, 58
drunkenness	Spatharas (2019), Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens, 117
education	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46
elateia	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 58
emotions	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
gods,intervention	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 176
gods,minor	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69, 176
gossip	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46
gymnasia	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46, 53
hetairesis	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46
heterosexual love	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
homer	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
hypereides	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 58
longinus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 58
lycurgus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
miaros (pollution,impurity),in aeschines	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 176
philip	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46
phoenix	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
phēmē	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46, 53, 58
popular beliefs,at epinikia	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69
religion,marginal status'	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
rumor (pheme)	Spatharas (2019), Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens, 117
rumour ( pheme)	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
schema (semblance)	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
sophist	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 58
sophrosune	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
stheneboia	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 53
surveillance culture	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
symposium	Spatharas (2019), Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens, 117
timarchus	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 69; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 46, 58
topoi,of as you all know in oratory	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
topoi,orators deconstruction of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
topoi	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 228
vulgarity (bōmolochia)	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 58
zeus,in hesiod	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 176