Athenian Council
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in the texts
Against Androtion
The Athenian Council of Five Hundred, whose crown or reward is the subject of Androtion's decree.
If I gave it at their request, my motion was illegal, but if I have never mentioned the ships in the whole of my decree, but give other grounds for granting a crown to the Council, where is the illegality of my motion?
But I am in a position to assert that the question does not concern the whole Council, but only Androtion and some others, who are the cause of the mischief.
And yet, even if we grant freely that the whole Council is on its trial, reflect how much more advantage you will gain if you condemn Androtion, than if you do not.
On the Chersonese
The Athenian Council in which a disputed formulation of policy was recently voiced.
I often wonder at the sort of speeches that are delivered here, but nothing, men of Athens, has surprised me more than what I heard uttered in the Council the other day, that your advisers are bound to put before you the plain alternative of fighting or observing the peace.
On the Crown
Athenian civic body involved in decrees, emergency procedures, and correspondence.
The Council arrived, the presiding Councillors formally reported the intelligence they had received, and the courier was introduced.
Evening had already fallen when a messenger arrived bringing to the presiding councillors the news that Elatea had been taken.
Philip, King of Macedonia, to the Council and People of Athens, greeting.
On the False Embassy
Athenian civic council before which Demosthenes first denounced the embassy's misconduct.
Give me the resolution which the Council adopted on my report, and the evidence of the member who moved it on that occasion.
There are many eye-witnesses of what I am about to relate, for the Council-house was thronged with spectators.
This imprecation, men of Athens, is pronounced, as the law directs, by the marshal on your behalf at every meeting of the Assembly, and again before the Council at all their sessions.