Defendant
historical figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 19 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Defendant the group
the defendant · I · the accused · the speaker · defendant · me
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe Defendant4 mentions
The First Tetralogy (Greek) · The Third Tetralogy (Greek) · Against Eubulides (Greek) · Against Callimachus (Greek)
That man is the defendant.
The Speaker“Defendant”3 mentions
Against Apaturius (Greek) · Against Eubulides (Greek) · Against Callimachus (Greek)
I have made a just plea to the best of my ability.
in the texts
The First Tetralogy
The anonymous individual formally accused of murdering an elderly man and his slave; the case against him rests entirely on circumstantial probability arguments and the reported testimony of the dying slave, and he delivers both defense speeches on his own behalf.
That man is the defendant.
Others meet with misfortune.
suspicion points plainly to the defendant;
The Third Tetralogy
The young man accused of causing the old man's death in a drunken brawl; he claims the old man was the aggressor and that he only struck back in self-defense, and that the old man's death was actually caused by an incompetent physician.
in no way am I his murderer.
The fact that their speech was brief does not surprise me:
Further, the very law under which I am being accused attests my innocence;
Against Apaturius
The unnamed defendant delivering the speech, a former sea-trader turned maritime lender who is being sued by Apaturius.
I have made a just plea to the best of my ability.
That I, on my part, have made my special plea with good right, and that Apaturius has lodged against me a claim that is.
I, men of the jury, have by now been for a long time engaged in foreign trade, and up to a certain time risked the sea in my own person;
Against Eubulides
The defendant delivering the speech, an Athenian who was struck from his deme's citizen register by vote of the demesmen and appeals the expulsion to a jury court.
Now hear the facts regarding my mother.
First, then, I will explain to you how the purging of the list came to be made at the meeting of the demesmen;
In the first place, after the demesmen had assembled, he wasted the whole day in making speeches and in drawing up resolutions.
Against Callimachus
The unnamed defendant delivering the speech, who pleads the Amnesty against Callimachus's suit and cites his own trierarchic service as proof of good character.
Now when the city had lost its ships in the Hellespont and was shorn of its power, I so far surpassed the majority of the trierarchs that I was one of the very few who saved their ships:
And finally, when Lysander proclaimed that if anyone should import grain to you he would be punished with death, we were so zealous for the city’s welfare that, although no one else dared to bring in even his own, we intercepted the grain that was being brought in to them and discharged it at the Piraeus.
but as the situation is, I am compelled first to speak of the law in accordance with which we have come before the court, that you may cast your votes with an understanding of the issues in our dispute and that no one of you may be surprised that I, although defendant in the case, am speaking prior to the plaintiff.
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The party who responds to a plaint, whose reply (fourfold: denial, confession, special plea, plea of former judgment) is procedurally regulated.
The reply is fourfold:
Then, when the defendant has appeared, the plaintiff should frame the plaint:
When the defendant, due to timidity, fear, or confusion of memory, requests time, he deserves to obtain it.