Androtion
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 14 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.
Men of Athens, I once fell out with a worthless, quarrelsome, unprincipled fellow, with whom in the end the whole city also fell out,—I mean Androtion.
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.
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;