Athenian citizens
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citizens · Athenians · the people · Athenian citizen · all citizens · common people · fellow citizens · full citizens · men of Athens · the common people
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Against Timocrates
The citizen body of Athens, acting through juries, Assembly votes, and legislative safeguards.
Nor shall it be lawful to propose a law applying to a particular man, unless the same be applicable to all Athenian citizens, except by the votes of not less than six thousand citizens voting in the affirmative by ballot.
In the first place, they entrusted to you citizens the decision whether a new law is to be introduced or the existing laws judged satisfactory.
During the first presidency, namely, that of the Pandionid Tribe, and on the eleventh day of that presidency, it was moved by Epicrates that, in order that the sacrifices may be offered, that provision may be adequate, and that any lack of funds for the Panathenian Festival may be made good, the Presidents of the Pandionid Tribe do tomorrow set up a Legislative Committee, and that such Legislative …
Against Ctesiphon
The Athenian civic body addressed by the speaker and treated as sovereign in law, assembly, and court.
You hear, fellow citizens, how the lawgiver commands that the man who is crowned by the people be proclaimed among the people, on the Pnyx, at a meeting of the assembly, and nowhere else;
I could wish, indeed, fellow citizens, that the Senate of Five Hundred and the assemblies of the people were properly conducted by those who preside over them, and the laws enforced which Solon enacted to secure orderly conduct on the part of public speakers;
today your fellow citizens as a body have put the city and the constitution into your hands as a solemn trust.
Against Meidias
The broader Athenian citizen body whose laws, rights, and safety are said to be injured by Meidias.
My object, men of Athens, is that you may know and feel that there is not, and never will be, anything—not birth, not wealth, not power—that you, the great mass of citizens, ought to tolerate, if it is coupled with insolence.
All citizens alike should be stirred to anger, when they reflect and observe that it is exactly the poorest and weakest of you that run the greatest risk of being thus wantonly wronged, while it is the rich blackguards that find it easiest to oppress others and escape punishment, and even to hire agents to put obstacles in the path of justice.
But I was assaulted by a personal enemy early in the day, when he was sober, prompted by insolence, not by wine, in the presence of many foreigners as well as citizens, and above all in a temple which I was strictly obliged to enter by virtue of my office.