Meidias

But not content with this, men of Athens, he actually corrupted the trainer of my chorus;

Now if there is anyone of you, Athenians, whose anger against Meidias falls short of a demand for his death, he is wrong.

Of those outrages which were committed in public or before the umpires in the theater, you are yourselves my witnesses, all of you, gentlemen of the jury.

or, again, that story about Meidias and the blow of the fist that Demosthenes got when he was choregus, in the orchestra, and how for thirty minas he sold both the insult to himself and the vote of censure that the people had passed against Meidias in the theater of Dionysus.

And on one occasion he got such a smashing blow that I imagine he still carries the visible marks of Meidias’ knuckles.

as pylagori you elected Meidias of Anagyrus, whom you all remember—I wish for many reasons he were still living —and Thrasycles of Oeum;

It happened, men of the jury, that Euxitheus of Cholleidae, who is here in court and is a relative of mine, and with him Meidias, on their way back from a dinner somewhere, came up to me, when I was now near my home, followed after me as I was borne to the bath, and were present when men brought the surgeon.

you ought rather to keep your eye on Meidias the quail-filliper and others of his sort—who undertake to manage the city’s affairs, while they still have the slavish hair (as the women would say) showing in their minds through their lack of culture, and have not yet got rid of it;

And Dercylidas replied:

Then Meidias, not knowing what to do, said:

Now don’t you, said he, be too petty about the details.