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Demosthenes, Orations, 59.5-59.7
nan For when the division took place there was not a man whose vote opposed the use of these funds for military purposes; and even now, if the matter is anywhere spoken of, it is acknowledged by all that Apollodorus gave the best advice, and was unjustly treated. It is, therefore, upon the one who by his arguments deceived the jurors that your wrath should fall, not upon those who were deceived.
nan This fellow Stephanus indicted the decree as illegal, and came before a court. He produced false witnesses to substantiate the calumnious charge that Apollodorus had been a debtor to the treasury for twenty-five years, and by making all sorts of accusations that were foreign to the indictment won a verdict against the decree. So far as this is concerned, if he saw fit to follow this course, we do not take it ill; but when the jurors were casting their votes to fix the penalty, although we begged him to make concessions, he would not listen to us, but fixed the fine at fifteen talents in order to deprive Apollodorus and his children of their civic rights, and to bring my sister and all of us into extremest distress and utter destitution.
nan For the property of Apollodorus did not amount to as much as three talents to enable him to pay in full a fine of such magnitude, yet if it were not paid by the ninth prytany The prytany was a tenth of the year, properly, the period during which each of the tribes held the presidency of the senate. See note a of Dem. 47.42 the fine would have been doubled and Apollodorus would have been inscribed as owing thirty talents to the treasury, all the property that he has would have been scheduled as belonging to the state, and upon its being sold Apollodorus himself and his children and his wife and all of us would have been reduced to extremest distress.

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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. Isaeus, Orations, 3.70 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.4.19, 1.7.16 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.4.19. But when he sighted his cousin Euryptolemus, the son of Peisianax, and his other relatives and with them his friends, then he disembarked and went up to the city, accompanied by a party who were prepared to quell any attack that anyone might make upon him. 1.7.16. After this Euryptolemus mounted the platform and spoke as follows in defence of the generals: I have come to the platform, men of Athens, partly to accuse Pericles, though he is my kinsman and intimate, and Diomedon, who is my friend, partly 406 B.C. to speak in their defence, and partly to advise the measures which seem to me to be best for the state as a whole.
4. Demosthenes, Orations, 22.2, 25.2, 40.57, 59.1-59.4, 59.6-59.7, 59.10-59.16, 59.52-59.53, 59.72 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

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subject	book bibliographic info
andokides, genos, herms/mysteries	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
anepsios	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
anger	Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 14
anthesteria (festival)	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
apollodoros	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 81
apollodoros son of pasion, lawsuits	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
apollodoros son of pasion, marriage	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 113
apollodorus against neaera, authorship	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
apollodorus against neaera, documents in	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
apollodorus against neaera, outline of the case	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
atimia	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
autochthony, and exclusiveness	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
citizen, citizenship, marriage with non-citizens	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
decrees, critique of	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 81
demades	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 81
disgust	Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 14
emotions, scripts of	Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 14
epikleros, marriage	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 113
graphe paranomon	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 81
graphê, paranomôn	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
justice, king archon	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
kephalos	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 81
miltiades, prosecution	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
neaera	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
perikles, sons	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464
phano (daughter of neaera)	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 109
philotimia	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 81
pity	Spatharas, Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens (2019) 14
symbouleutic oratory	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 80
synegoroi'	Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives (2020) 80
synegoros	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 464