Aristophon

Aristophon of Azenia, who had long been subject to the charge of having gone over to the Boeotians;

Once the famous Aristophon of Azenia dared in your presence to boast that he had been acquitted seventy-five times on charge of making illegal motions.

But when now Hegesandrus was coming before you as a public speaker, being at the same time engaged in his attack on Aristophon of Azenia, an attack which he kept up until Aristophon threatened to institute against him before the people the same process that I have instituted against Timarchus, and when Hegesandrus’ brother Crobylus was coming forward as a public man, when, in short, these men had …

Who of you does not know Diophantes, called the orphan, who arrested the foreigner and brought him before the archon, whose associate on the bench was Aristophon of Azenia?

the next in order by Aristophon;

In the presidence of the tribe Hippothontis, proposed by Aristophon, of Collytus, a president.

Yet you told us that I entangled the citizens in a quarrel by my talk about those places, though every resolution that concerned them was moved by Eubulus, or Aristophon, or Diopeithes, not by me;

To Aristophon I think I could raise many sound objections.

Leodamas of Acharnae, Aristophon of Hazenia, Cephisodotus of Ceramicus, and Dinias of Herchia.

Moreover it was Aristophon who proposed to pay Gelarchus five talents for sums advanced to the democrats in the Piraeus;

A decree was moved by Aristophon in the Assembly, appointing a commission of inquiry, and directing anyone, who knew of any sacred or public money in private hands, to give information to the commission.

but you must hear the trick of this clever fellow Aristophon, who has concocted the whole scheme.

After this the plaintiff came, having with him Aristophon, the man sent out as our representative, and laid claim to the grain, saying that he had lent money to Hegestratus.

This man who was sent out by us—his name was Aristophon, and he is the same one, as we now hear, who managed the business of Miccalion—has entered into an agreement with the plaintiff, and has sold him his services.

And this decree, proposed by Aristophon, was passed, as follows:

but you who sit here are by now in such a mood that if anyone comes forward and asserts that the cause of all our evil is Diopithes or Chares or Aristophon, or any other citizen that he happens to name, you at once agree and applaud the truth of the remark.

Furthermore, at Athens many men have upon occasion risen to power—the great Callistratus, for instance, Aristophon, Diophantus, and others of earlier date.

So you do not mount the tribune for your own kinsmen and for men who have a claim on your services, and will you mount it for Aeschines, who, when Aristophon prosecuted Philonicus, and in denouncing him denounced your own policy, joined in the attack upon you, and so ranged himself with your enemies?

The accusation was made by Aristophon, and you were the judges;

Certain people are so convinced that they have the right to do or say whatever they please before you, that some of those who joined with Aristophon in preferring his charges, and were bitter against those who let out their trierarchies, now bid you to crown these people here;

Aristophon of Hazenia, now a most influential person in public life—he was acquitted in this court by two votes only;

When he has learned the news from the assembly he reports it, and adds besides the account of the battle in the time of Aristophon the orator, and of the one the Lacedaemonians fought under Lysander, and the speeches he once delivered himself to general applause in the assembly.

Demostratus, the son of Aristophon;