The Prosecutor
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
my opponent's accusers · the accusers · the prosecution · the prosecutor · this fellow · we, the avengers of the dead · you
in the texts
On the murder of Herodes
The individual bringing the apagoge prosecution against the defendant, addressed directly as 'you' throughout much of the speech and accused of illegally circumventing homicide procedure.
You, the prosecutor, are not on oath;
and the object of this arbitrary behavior of yours is to have me put to death without just cause.
Not only have they the distinction of being the oldest in this country, but they have changed no more than the crime with which they are concerned;
The Third Tetralogy
The unnamed kinsman/kinsmen of the dead old man who bring and argue the homicide charge against the youth, speaking as the 'avengers of the dead' in the first and third speeches of the tetralogy.
we have shown that there are no doubts about the blow which caused it:
To begin with, he said that even if the man did die as a result of the blows, he did not kill him:
for it was as the result of an intentional act on the part of the defendant that the man was killed.