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.
he concocted an indictment for impiety, and brought me to trial.
but the man who had wickedly brought me to that pass I accounted an enemy with whom I could make no terms.
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.
Against Androtion
The historical Athenian politician prosecuted through an attack on his decree and on his public and private fitness for civic authority.
Consider this point.
How then will this be ensured?
You must not tell us that this has often been done before;