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Demosthenes, Orations, 59.14-59.15
nan The injuries, then, which I have suffered at the hands of Stephanus, and which led me to prefer this indictment, I have told you. I must now prove to you that this woman Neaera is an alien, that she is living with this man Stephanus as his wife, and that she has violated the laws of the state in many ways. I make of you, therefore, men of the jury, a request which seems to me a proper one for a young man and one without experience in speaking—that you will permit me to call Apollodorus as advocate to assist me in this trial.
nan For he is older than I and is better acquainted with the laws. He has studied all these matters with the greatest care, and he too has been wronged by this fellow Stephanus so that no one can object to his seeking vengeance upon the one who injured him without provocation. It is your duty, in the light of truth itself, when you have heard the exact nature both of the accusation and the defense, then and not till then to reach a verdict which will be in the interest of the gods of the laws, of justice, and of your own selves. (Apollodorus, as co-pleaser, speaks.)

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1. Herodotus, Histories, 6.136-6.140 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 6.136. Such was the priestess' reply to the Parians. The Athenians had much to say about Miltiades on his return from Paros, especially Xanthippus son of Ariphron, who prosecuted Miltiades before the people for deceiving the Athenians and called for the death penalty. ,Miltiades was present but could not speak in his own defense, since his thigh was festering; he was laid before the court on a couch, and his friends spoke for him, often mentioning the fight at Marathon and the conquest of Lemnos: how Miltiades had punished the Pelasgians and taken Lemnos, delivering it to the Athenians. ,The people took his side as far as not condemning him to death, but they fined him fifty talents for his wrongdoing. Miltiades later died of gangrene and rot in his thigh, and the fifty talents were paid by his son Cimon. 6.137. Miltiades son of Cimon took possession of Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told; namely, that Hecataeus the son of Hegesandrus declares in his history that the act was unjust; ,for when the Athenians saw the land under Hymettus, formerly theirs, which they had given to the Pelasgians as a dwelling-place in reward for the wall that had once been built around the acropolis—when the Athenians saw how well this place was tilled which previously had been bad and worthless, they were envious and coveted the land, and so drove the Pelasgians out on this and no other pretext. But the Athenians themselves say that their reason for expelling the Pelasgians was just. ,The Pelasgians set out from their settlement at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at that time, and their sons and daughters used to go to the Nine Wells for water; and whenever they came, the Pelasgians maltreated them out of mere arrogance and pride. And this was not enough for them; finally they were caught in the act of planning to attack Athens. ,The Athenians were much better men than the Pelasgians, since when they could have killed them, caught plotting as they were, they would not so do, but ordered them out of the country. The Pelasgians departed and took possession of Lemnos, besides other places. This is the Athenian story; the other is told by Hecataeus. 6.138. These Pelasgians dwelt at that time in Lemnos and desired vengeance on the Athenians. Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron. They seized many of the women, then sailed away with them and brought them to Lemnos to be their concubines. ,These women bore more and more children, and they taught their sons the speech of Attica and Athenian manners. These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian women; if one of them was beaten by one of the others, they would all run to his aid and help each other; these boys even claimed to rule the others, and were much stronger. ,When the Pelasgians perceived this, they took counsel together; it troubled them much in their deliberations to think what the boys would do when they grew to manhood, if they were resolved to help each other against the sons of the lawful wives and attempted to rule them already. ,Thereupon the Pelasgians resolved to kill the sons of the Attic women; they did this, and then killed the boys' mothers also. From this deed and the earlier one which was done by the women when they killed their own husbands who were Thoas' companions, a “Lemnian crime” has been a proverb in Hellas for any deed of cruelty. 6.139. But when the Pelasgians had murdered their own sons and women, their land brought forth no fruit, nor did their wives and their flocks and herds bear offspring as before. Crushed by hunger and childlessness, they sent to Delphi to ask for some release from their present ills. ,The Pythian priestess ordered them to pay the Athenians whatever penalty the Athenians themselves judged. The Pelasgians went to Athens and offered to pay the penalty for all their wrongdoing. ,The Athenians set in their town-hall a couch adorned as finely as possible, and placed beside it a table covered with all manner of good things, then ordered the Pelasgians to deliver their land to them in the same condition. ,The Pelasgians answered, “We will deliver it when a ship with a north wind accomplishes the voyage from your country to ours in one day”; they supposed that this was impossible, since Attica is far to the south of Lemnos. 6.140. At the time that was all. But a great many years later, when the Chersonese on the Hellespont was made subject to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon accomplished the voyage from Elaeus on the Chersonese to Lemnos with the Etesian winds then constantly blowing; he proclaimed that the Pelasgians must leave their island, reminding them of the oracle which the Pelasgians thought would never be fulfilled. ,The Hephaestians obeyed, but the Myrinaeans would not agree that the Chersonese was Attica and were besieged, until they too submitted. Thus did Miltiades and the Athenians take possession of Lemnos.
2. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 26.3-26.4 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 10.7 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 10.7. further, that Epicurus's acquaintance with philosophy was small and his acquaintance with life even smaller; that his bodily health was pitiful, so much so that for many years he was unable to rise from his chair; and that he spent a whole mina daily on his table, as he himself says in his letter to Leontion and in that to the philosophers at Mitylene. Also that among other courtesans who consorted with him and Metrodorus were Mammarion and Hedia and Erotion and Nikidion. He alleges too that in his thirty-seven books On Nature Epicurus uses much repetition and writes largely in sheer opposition to others, especially to Nausiphanes, and here are his own words: Nay, let them go hang: for, when labouring with an idea, he too had the sophist's off-hand boastfulness like many another servile soul;
4. Demosthenes, Orations, 22.2, 25.2, 40.57, 59.4-59.6, 59.15
5. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
advocate	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
aeschines	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
alien	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231, 232
andokides,genos,herms/mysteries	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
anepsios	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
antiphon	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
apollodoros	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17, 213, 232
apollodoros son of pasion,lawsuits	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
apollodoros son of pasion,marriage	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 113
arbitration/arbitrator	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
archon	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231
aspasia	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231
atimia	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
citizen/citizenship	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17, 213, 216, 231
divorce	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 232
epikleros,marriage	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 113
foreign/foreigner	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231
graphê,paranomôn	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
hetaira	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 232
immigrant/immigration	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 216
law,athenian.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
logography,logographer	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
lycurgus (attic orator)	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
mantias	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
market	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 213
marriage	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231, 232
metaneira,therapy	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 213
metic	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 213, 231
miltiades,prosecution	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
neaira	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17, 213, 232
oikos	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
orators,attic	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
oratory	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
periclean citizenship law	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231, 232
pericles	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231, 232
perikles,sons	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
plangon	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
polis	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
politics	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 213, 231
prostates	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 213
religion	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 216
representative/representation (legal)	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
slave/slavery	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
synegoria/synegoros	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
synegoros'	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 101
synegoros	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 464
theomnestos	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17
thesmothetai	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 231, 232
transgression	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 17