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Demosthenes, Orations, 19.184


nanA man can do no greater wrong than by telling lies to a popular assembly; for, where the political system is based upon speeches, how can it be safely administered if the speeches are false? If he actually takes bribes and speaks in the interest of our enemies, will not you be imperilled? Again, to filch your opportunities is not an offence equivalent to filching those of an oligarchy or a monarchy, but far greater.


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

9 results
1. Theognis, Elegies, 120-128, 119 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2. Euripides, Electra, 367 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

367. φεῦ: 367. Ah! There is no exact way to test a man’s worth; for human nature has confusion in it. For instance, I have seen before now the son of a noble father
3. Euripides, Hippolytus, 927 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Euripides, Medea, 516-519, 515 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

515. that thy children and the wife who saved thy life are beggars and vagabonds! O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, white on man’s brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain’s heart? Choru
5. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.37.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3.37.4. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws, and to overrule every proposition brought forward, thinking that they cannot show their wit in more important matters, and by such behavior too often ruin their country; while those who mistrust their own cleverness are content to be less learned than the laws, and less able to pick holes in the speech of a good speaker; and being fair judges rather than rival athletes, generally conduct affairs successfully.
6. Dinarchus, Or., 1.47 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

7. Andocides, Orations, 1.69, 1.74

8. Andocides, Orations, 1.69, 1.74

9. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.282, 19.185, 20.9, 20.14, 24.124, 40.53



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschines Hesk (2000) 240
andocides Goldhill (2022) 116
antiphon,anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000) 205, 240
aristogeiton and harmodius (tyrannicides),statues of,agora,athens Goldhill (2022) 116
athens,harmodius and aristogeiton (tyrannicides),statues of,agora Goldhill (2022) 116
athens,history and memory in Goldhill (2022) 116
deception,and democratic constitution Hesk (2000) 163, 164, 165
deception,and sophistry Hesk (2000) 205
deception,association with rhetoric Hesk (2000) 205, 240
deception,in modern democracies Hesk (2000) 1, 205
deception,in the agora Hesk (2000) 163
deception,staged detections of Hesk (2000) 240
democracy,athenian,and noble lies,and its oratory Hesk (2000) 240
democracy,athenian,and noble lies,as rhetorics first critic Hesk (2000) 240
democracy,athenian,and noble lies Hesk (2000) 1, 163, 164, 165
democracy,athenian,mass-elite relations in Hesk (2000) 165
democracy,athenian,obers view of Hesk (2000) 165
democracy,modern western,and noble lies Hesk (2000) 1, 163
democracy,modern western,and rhetoric Hesk (2000) 205
democracy,modern western,and spin Hesk (2000) 205
demosthenes,as mimetic liar Hesk (2000) 240
demosthenes,on democracy and oligarchy Hesk (2000) 1
demosthenes,representation of deceit Hesk (2000) 163, 164, 165, 240
demosthenes,works,against aristogeiton Hesk (2000) 1
demosthenes,works,against leptines Hesk (2000) 163, 164
demosthenes,works,against stephanus Hesk (2000) 1
demosthenes,works,on the crown Hesk (2000) 164
demosthenes,works,on the false embassy Hesk (2000) 1, 163, 164, 165, 240
demosthenes Goldhill (2022) 116; Hesk (2000) 1, 163, 164, 165, 205, 240
detienne,m. Hesk (2000) 240
deva,nirj Hesk (2000) 205
dinarchus Hesk (2000) 164, 165
euripides,medea Hesk (2000) 240
euripides,on lie-detection Hesk (2000) 240
false witnessing Hesk (2000) 163
greco-roman culture,history and memory in athens and rome Goldhill (2022) 116
harmodius and aristogeiton (tyrannicides),statues of,agora,athens Goldhill (2022) 116
history and memory,in athens Goldhill (2022) 116
history and memory Goldhill (2022) 116
hyperides Hesk (2000) 240
mimesis (imitation,representation) Hesk (2000) 240
mobile phones Hesk (2000) 205
noble lie,in sisyphus and republic Hesk (2000) 1
noble lie Hesk (2000) 1, 163, 164, 165
north,oliver Hesk (2000) 1
ober,j. Hesk (2000) 165
open society,the Hesk (2000) 1
pager,electronic Hesk (2000) 205
plato,and the noble lie Hesk (2000) 163
plato,and totalitarianism Hesk (2000) 1
politics,of history and memory in athens Goldhill (2022) 116
popper,k. Hesk (2000) 1, 240
rhetoric,as spin Hesk (2000) 205
rhetoric,as technology Hesk (2000) 205
rhetoric,in modern politics Hesk (2000) 205
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000) 205, 240
rhetoric,of anti-spin Hesk (2000) 205
self-exposing lies Hesk (2000) 240
sleaze Hesk (2000) 205
spin and spin-doctors Hesk (2000) 205
theognis Hesk (2000) 240
thucydides,history and memory in Goldhill (2022) 116
time Goldhill (2022) 116
topoi,and interplay with creative strategy Hesk (2000) 165, 240
topoi Hesk (2000) 165, 240
tyrannicides (harmodius and aristogeiton),statues of,agora,athens' Goldhill (2022) 116
vickers,b. Hesk (2000) 240