Prosecution of Timarchus
“dokimasia”
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
my prosecution of Timarchus · the present trial · this process · this trial
in the texts
Against Timarchus
The dokimasia rhetoron proceeding brought by Aeschines against Timarchus, examining his fitness to address the Athenian people.
But he is on trial on precisely this charge, that after such conduct as this, he breaks the laws by speaking before the assembly.
will pass over the most of these incidents and those which happened long ago, but I do wish to remind you of what took place at the very assembly in which I instituted this process against Timarchus.
On the Embassy
Earlier prosecution by Aeschines, presented as a warning to live chastely.
You who are fathers of children or have younger brother’s whom you hold dear, remember that to me they are indebted for a warning which they will not forget, admonished to live chastely through my prosecution of Timarchus.