Defendant

and that shows that the defendant, and the defendant alone, is the murderer.

Thirst for revenge made him forget the risk, and the overpowering fear of the ruin which threatened him spurred him to all the more reckless an attack.

we merely remind you that if neither inferences from probability nor the evidence of witnesses prove the defendant guilty today, there remains no means of proving any defendant guilty.

and even if both parties are thought equally responsible alike for the actual crime and for the mischance which led to it, and it is decided from the arguments put forward that there is no more reason for acquitting the defendant than for condemning him, he still has a right to be acquitted rather than condemned.

I am not surprised that the defendant, who has committed so outrageous a crime, should speak as he has acted;

The defendant, not because he has judged himself guilty, but because he was alarmed by the vehemence the prosecution, has withdrawn.

So I took over the seven minae from Parmeno, and having had transferred to myself the obligation for the three, which the plaintiff had already received from him, caused a bill of sale to be executed on the ship and the slaves until such time as he should repay me the ten minae, which he had received through me, and also the thirty for which he had made me his surety with the banker.

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;

When I heard him, thinking this fellow a most impious wretch because of his attempt, I set about considering how I might myself get free from my guaranty to the bank, and how the foreigner might avoid the loss of the money he had lent this fellow through me.

In the first place, after the demesmen had assembled, he wasted the whole day in making speeches and in drawing up resolutions.

He produced no witnesses in support of his charges, either a member of the deme or one of the citizens at large, but urged the demesmen to pass a vote of expulsion.

I for my part am left without a father, but for my mother’s sake I beg and beseech you so to settle this trial as to restore to me the right to bury her in our ancestral tomb.

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.

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.

When the defendant, due to timidity, fear, or confusion of memory, requests time, he deserves to obtain it.

When a plaint of this kind has been framed by the plaintiff, the defendant should then give a reply that is connected to that plaint.

Then, when the defendant has appeared, the plaintiff should frame the plaint: