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Demosthenes, Orations, 21.227


nanAnd yet now, when his guilt has been established, when the people, sitting in a sacred building, have anticipated his condemnation, when all the other crimes of this miscreant have been sifted, when it has fallen to your lot to be his judges and it lies in your power to conclude the whole affair by a single vote—now, I say, will you hesitate to succor me, to gratify the people, to give all a lesson in sobriety, and to enjoy perfect safety for the rest of your lives, by making an example of the defendant for the instruction of others? Therefore for all the reasons that I have urged, and above all for the honor of the god whose festival he has been convicted of profaning, punish this man by casting the vote which piety and justice alike demand.


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

12 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 241, 240 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

240. However, when to both the foreigner
2. Antiphon, Orations, 5.82 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Plato, Apology of Socrates, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

32d. howed again, by action, not in word only, that I did not care a whit for death if that be not too rude an expression, but that I did care with all my might not to do anything unjust or unholy. For that government, with all its power, did not frighten me into doing anything unjust, but when we came out of the rotunda, the other four went to Salamis and arrested Leon, but I simply went home; and perhaps I should have been put to death for it, if the government had not
4. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.84.2, 5.104 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3.84.2. In the confusion into which life was now thrown in the cities, human nature, always rebelling against the law and now its master, gladly showed itself ungoverned in passion, above respect for justice, and the enemy of all superiority; since revenge would not have been set above religion, and gain above justice, had it not been for the fatal power of envy.
5. Xenophon, Apology, 5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.7.19, 4.1.33 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.7.19. No! at least not if you take my advice and follow the just and righteous course, the course which will best enable you to learn the truth and to avoid finding out hereafter, to your sorrow, that it is you yourselves who have sinned most grievously, not only against the gods, but against yourselves. The advice I give you is such that, it you follow it, you cannot be deceived either by me or by anyone else, and that with full knowledge you will punish the guilty with whatever punishment you may desire, either all of them together or each one separately, namely, by first granting them at least one day, if not more, to speak in their own defence, and by putting your trust, not so much in others, but in yourselves. 4.1.33. Such a friend I proved myself, and now I am brought to such a pass by you that I have not so much as a meal in my own land unless, like the beasts, I pick up a bit of what you may leave. And the beautiful dwellings and parks, full of trees and wild animals, which my father left me, in which I took delight,—all these parks I see cut down, all these dwellings burned to the ground. If it is I that do not understand either what is righteous or what is just, do you teach me how these are the deeds of men who know how to repay favours.
7. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.4.19 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.4.19. To me at least it seemed that by these sayings he kept his companions from impiety, injustice, and baseness, and that not only when they were seen by men, but even in solitude; since they ever felt that no deed of theirs could at any time escape the gods.
8. Aeschines, Letters, 1.90-1.91, 1.176-1.177, 1.192-1.193, 2.176 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 79 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

10. Aeschines, Or., 2.158

11. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.126, 19.1, 21.51-21.55, 21.98, 21.104-21.122, 21.220-21.222, 21.224-21.225, 22.72, 23.97, 24.8, 24.101, 25.53, 53.1, 56.48, 59.1, 59.15, 59.109, 59.126

12. Lysias, Orations, 6.54, 12.35, 15.9, 27.7



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agonothetai,of panathenaia Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 38
antisthenes Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
argument,strategies of Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138
arguments,religious,religious significance of Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21, 77
ariarathes Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 38
aristarchus Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16
asebia (impiety),introduction into against midias Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21, 28
asebia (impiety),not basis of charge against midias Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16
audience Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21
choregos Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16, 28
community,civic,dikasts as part of Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 77
crown,at dionysia Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16
curse Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 77
dearness to god,and sound thinking Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
dearness to god Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
dionysia Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 28
dionysus (god and cult) Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16
eubulus,in court Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21
eusebeia' Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 38
eusebia (piety),keeping the heliastic oath Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 77
gods,offended Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 28
graphe,asebias Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16, 28
homoiosis Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
hybris Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16, 28
invective,unusually strong Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21
jury Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 77
lack of respect for gods'" Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
law,athenian. Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138, 175, 219
midias Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16, 21, 28
nomos (pl. nomoi) Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 219
oaths,heliastic Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 77
oracles Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 28
politics,prosecution of rivals Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21
probole Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16
procedural law Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138
proper respect for gods,and service to gods Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
proper respect for gods,and sound thinking Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
protagoras Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 175
public and private litigation. Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138, 219
punishment.,as retribution. Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 175
punishment. Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 175, 219
religion,lending seriousness Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 16
religious correctness,and justice Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
religious correctness,and service to gods Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
religious correctness,and sound thinking Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
religious correctness Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
revenge Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 175, 219
rhetoric,manipulation of views Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 21
rhetoric Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 138
rule of law. Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 219
service to gods'" "162.0_189@service to gods',and justice" Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
sound thinking,and dearness to gods Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
sound thinking,and homoiosis Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
sound thinking Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 189
technitai of dionysus Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 38