Jurors' oath

1. On the Mysteries Andocides 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

   on the mysteries 4 passages anchored here

   The oath is cited as binding the court's judgment.

   as jurors you have sworn to see that that decision is a fair one, under pain of causing the most terrible of curses to fall upon yourselves and your children;

2. Against Ctesiphon Aeschines 1 authority 1 citation

   against ctesiphon

   The oath is cited to bind jurors to legal judgment rather than political pressure.

   This is why the lawgiver placed first in the jurors’ oath these words, I will vote according to the laws.

3. Against Androtion Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation · 5 passages

   against androtion 5 passages anchored here

   The speaker treats the oath as a governing norm for the verdict.

   But if, as the law says and as your oath enjoins, you sternly and absolutely reject their excuses, and make it clear that you have withheld the reward because they have not built the ships, then every Council, men of Athens, will deliver to you the ships duly built, because they will see that in your eyes everything else is of less consequence than the law.

4. Against Aristogeiton I Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation

   against aristogeiton i

   The oaths are invoked as a recognized legal-religious obligation binding the jurors.

   How on the first of each month will you climb the Acropolis and pray for blessings on the State and on yourselves, when the defendant and his worthy father are registered there, and you have given your verdict clean against your oaths and the documents there preserved?

5. Against Stephanus I Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation

   against stephanus i

   The passage explicitly appeals to the jurors' oaths as binding authority.

   and in the interest of the laws and of the oaths which you have taken as jurors punish the man who has robbed me of a verdict by giving false testimony, and make him an example to others, remembering all that you have heard from me and bearing it in mind, if they attempt to mislead you, and meeting them at every point.

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