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Demosthenes, Orations, 20.68-20.72
nan First of all, then, in the case of Conon , ask yourselves whether dissatisfaction with the man or his performances justifies the cancelling of the gifts conferred on him. For, as some of you who are his contemporaries can attest, it was just after the return of the exiled democrats from the Piraeus, Under Thrasybulus in 403 . when our city was so weak that she had not a single ship, and Conon, who was a general in the Persian service and received no prompting whatever from you, defeated the Lacedaemonians at sea and taught the former dictators of Greece to show you deference; he cleared the islands of their military governors, and coming here he restored our Long Walls Conon obtained the support of Persia for Athens against Sparta and was appointed joint commander, with the satrap Pharnabazus, of the Persian fleet. In 394 he destroyed the Spartan fleet off Cnidus, sailed about the Aegean expelling the Spartan harmosts from many of the islands, and finally reached Athens, where he restored the Long Wall, dismantled since the Peloponnesian war. ; and he was the first to make the hegemony of Greece once more the subject of dispute between Athens and Sparta .
nan For, indeed, he has the unique distinction of being thus mentioned in his inscription; Whereas Conon, it runs, freed the allies of Athens . That inscription, gentlemen of the jury, is his glory in your estimation, but it is yours in the estimation of all Greece . For whatever boon any one of us confers on the other states, the credit of it is reaped by the fame of our city.
nan Therefore his contemporaries not only granted him immunity, but also set up his statue in bronze—the first man so honored since Harmodius and Aristogiton. For they felt that he too, in breaking up the empire of the Lacedaemonians, had ended no insignificant tyranny. In order, then, that you may give a closer attention to my words, the clerk shall read the actual decrees which you then passed in favor of Conon . Read them. [The decrees are read]
nan It was not, then, only by you, Athenians, that Conon was honored for the services that I have described, but by many others, who rightly felt bound to show gratitude for the benefits they had received. And so it is to your dishonor, men of Athens, that in other states his rewards hold good, but of your rewards alone he is to lose this part.
nan Neither is this creditable—to honor him when living, with all the distinctions that have been recited to you, but when he is dead to take back some part of your former gifts. For many of his achievements, men of Athens, deserve praise, and all of them make it improper to revoke the gifts they earned for him, but the noblest deed of all was his restoration of the Long Walls.

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2. Aeschines, Or., 1.25-1.27, 3.178-3.179
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4. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1140
5. Epigraphy, Inscr. De Delos, 1521

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
admission into an association	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
aeschines	Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021), Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity, 81
ateleia	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
athens,and identity	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 45
athens	Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021), Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity, 81
banquets,associations	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
chabrias	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
conon	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241; Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 45, 104
contributions and fees,associations	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
decrees,associations	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
demosthenes,on themistocles	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
demosthenes,orator	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
demosthenes,works,against leptines	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 45
demosthenes	Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021), Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity, 81; Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 45
dôreai	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
entrance-fees,associations	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
euergetism	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
exemption from	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
hierarchy,associations	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
honors,controversy surrounding	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
leptines	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
liturgies,exemption from	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
lysias,on themistocles and theramenes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
marathon,battle of	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
military commanders,honors for	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
miltiades	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
negotiability,of morality of military trickery	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
prytaneion	Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021), Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity, 81
psenamosis,synodos of fellow farmers/landowners of	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 51
salamis (cyprus),salamis,battle of	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
statues,in athens	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
statues,of military commanders	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
themistocles,as discussed in oratory	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
themistocles,compared with conon	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
themistocles,compared with theramenes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
themistocles	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241
timai'	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 241