Ancestors of Athens
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our ancestors · ancestors · fathers · forefathers · your fathers
spoken of as
1 expressionthe ancestors of Athens1 mention
Against Timarchus (Greek)
Such, then, was the judgment of your fathers concerning things shameful and things honorable;
in the texts
Against Timarchus
The earlier generations of Athenians invoked as exemplars of severe moral judgment against unchastity, contrasted with the present jury's decision.
Such, then, was the judgment of your fathers concerning things shameful and things honorable;
For so stern were they toward all shameful conduct, and so precious did they hold the purity of their children, that when one of the citizens found that his daughter had been seduced, and that she had failed to guard well her chastity till the time of marriage, he walled her up in an empty house with a horse, which he knew would surely kill her, if she were shut in there with him.
Antidosis
Earlier Athenians whose achievements, laws, honors, and later mistakes are invoked to guide present judgment.
That was the way our ancestors felt about them.
Things were not like that in the time of our ancestors;
what was he who after him liberated the Hellenes and led our forefathers forth to the leadership and power which they achieved, and who, besides, appreciating the natural advantage of the Piraeus, girded the city with walls in despite of the Lacedaemonians;