Androtion
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 17 anchored passages
this man · defendant · he · that lewd fellow · you
in the texts
Against Timocrates
Athenian politician/litigant portrayed as Demosthenes’ enemy, a failed accuser, and one of the men protected by Timocrates’ law.
and then, when there was no subterfuge left by which you could be kept out of your money, this man Timocrates, with the most insolent contempt of the whole proceeding, proposes this law,—a law by which he robs the gods of their consecrated treasure and the city of her just dues, invalidates the judgements pronounced by the Council, the Assembly, and the Courts of Justice, and has given free licenc …
but the man who had wickedly brought me to that pass I accounted an enemy with whom I could make no terms.
he concocted an indictment for impiety, and brought me to trial.
Against Androtion
The historical Athenian politician prosecuted through an attack on his decree and on his public and private fitness for civic authority.
If I gave it at their request, my motion was illegal, but if I have never mentioned the ships in the whole of my decree, but give other grounds for granting a crown to the Council, where is the illegality of my motion?
for the law makes you a partner in the disqualification of your father, and being disqualified you had no right either to speak or move.
Gentlemen of the jury, Euctemon finding himself wronged by Androtion, thinks it his duty to obtain satisfaction for himself and at the same time to up hold the constitution;
Rhetoric
Speaker credited with a simile comparing Idrieus to newly unchained curs.
Androtion said of Idrieus that he was like curs just unchained;
Demosthenes
Athenian politician against whom Demosthenes wrote a public oration delivered by another before he entered public life.
Moreover, of his public orations, those against Androtion and Timocrates and Aristocrates were written for others to pronounce, before he had as yet entered public life;
Solon
Writer cited for the alternate claim that Solon's reform reduced interest rather than cancelling debts outright.
Some writers, however, and Androtion is one of them, affirm that the poor were relieved not by a cancelling of debts, but by a reduction of the interest upon them, and showed their satisfaction by giving the name of disburdenment to this act of humanity, and to the augmentation of measures and the purchasing power of money which accompanied it.