Athenian ancestral precedent

1. Fourth Philippic Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

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   The orator relies on ancestral deeds as a legitimating precedent.

   For if you have the guarantee of some god, since no mere mortal could be a satisfactory surety for such an event, that if you remain inactive and abandon everything, Philip will not in the end march against yourselves, by Zeus and all the other gods, it would be disgraceful and unworthy of you and of the resources of your city and the record of your ancestors to abandon all the other Greeks to ens …

2. On the Crown Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation · 5 passages

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   The passage relies on recognized civic memory as an authority for judging policy.

   I swear it by our forefathers who bore the brunt of warfare at Marathon, who stood in array of battle at Plataea, who fought in the sea-fights of Salamis and Artemisium, and by all the brave men who repose in our public sepulchres, buried there by a country that accounted them all to be alike worthy of the same honor —all, I say, Aeschines, not the successful and the victorious alone.

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