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Demosthenes, Orations, 20.74-20.75


nanNow I assert—and I earnestly appeal to you, Athenians, not to take offence at what is coming, but to consider whether it is true—I assert that in proportion as openness is better than secrecy, and it is more honorable to gain one’s end by victory than by trickery, so Conon deserves more credit than Themistocles for building the walls. For the latter achieved it by evading those who would have prevented it, but the former by beating them in battle. Therefore it is not right that so great a man should be wronged by you, or should gain less than those orators who will try to prove that you ought to deduct something from what was bestowed on him.


nanVery well. But, they will say, we may let the son of Chabrias be robbed of the immunity which his father justly received from you and bequeathed to him. But I am sure there is not a single right-minded man who would approve of that. Now, perhaps you know, even without any words from me, that Chabrias was a man of high character; yet there is no harm if I too recall briefly his achievements.


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

6 results
1. Aeschines, Letters, 1.25-1.27, 3.178-3.179, 3.181, 3.259 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Aeschines, Or., 1.25-1.27, 3.178-3.179, 3.181, 3.259

3. Demosthenes, Orations, 13.22-13.23, 18.316, 19.249, 20.14, 20.18, 20.67-20.72, 20.75, 20.77-20.79, 20.81-20.82, 20.112, 20.114-20.117, 20.119-20.120, 20.142, 23.196-23.199

4. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1140

5. Epigraphy, Inscr. De Delos, 1521

6. Lysias, Orations, 2.42



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, 46
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, 46, 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, 46, 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, 46
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, 46
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, 46, 104
themistocles,compared with conon Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 46, 104
themistocles,compared with theramenes Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 104
themistocles,ruse against the spartans Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 46
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