Athenian citizens and jurors
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
you · citizens · fellow-citizens · jurors · jury · men of Athens · multitude · the multitude · the people
in the texts
On the Crown
The Athenian audience addressed as participants in policy, law, and verdict.
In your presence, men of Athens, I now invoke all the gods and goddesses whose domain is the land of Attica.
Yet you let slip your proper opportunities of bringing me to justice on behalf of the citizens, if I had done wrong, by audit, by indictment, by any sort of legal procedure;
and I need not argue how profitable my policy was, for you know it by experience.
Antidosis
The Athenian audience and jury whose opinions, votes, and civic habits determine the case and the standing of education.
Therefore, if you will only heed me and be sensible, you will not despise these men whom the multitude are wont to believe, not only with reference to each one of their fellow-citizens, but also with reference to the affairs of the whole state, but you will in some measure show attention and pay court to them in order that you may be held in honor both because of your own deeds and because of their words.
“You observe,” I would say to him, “the nature of the multitude, how susceptible they are to flattery;
For you are to determine by your votes, not my fate only, but that of a way of life to which many of our youths are devoting their minds.
Memorabilia
The many whose election does not by itself make someone a true ruler.
Kings and rulers, he said, are not those who hold the sceptre, nor those who are chosen by the multitude, nor those on whom the lot falls, nor those who owe their power to force or deception;