Athenian People / Assembly · Atlas

spoken of as

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The Assembly of the Athenian people1 mention

Toward no city and toward none of the citizens in this or that city who have supported the existing order must you harbor any bitterness or bear a grudge.

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The Athenian people / Assembly1 mention

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek)

When the people of Athens passed a decree granting the right of citizenship to Pasion and his descendants on account of services to the state, my father favored the granting of the people’s gift, and himself gave in marriage to Apollodorus, son of Pasion, his own daughter, my sister, and she is the mother of the children of Apollodorus.

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in the texts

Constitution of the AtheniansClassical · Greek

The Athenian citizen body acting through the Assembly, described as sovereign in the present constitution

For the people has made itself master of everything, and all things are administered by decrees and by law-courts, in which the people is supreme.

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Another Assembly is for supplications, in which any who wishes may, having placed a suppliant-branch, speak to the people about whatever he wishes, both private and public.

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In the sixth presidency, in addition to what has been said, they put to the vote the question of the holding of an ostracism, whether it seems good to hold one or not, and accusations of sycophants, both of Athenians and of metics, up to three of each, and any case where a man has promised something to the people and not performed it.

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LettersClassical · Greek

The collective body of Athenian citizens addressed throughout the letters as the audience and decision-making authority over Demosthenes' return, the treatment of Lycurgus' sons, and civic policy generally.

Toward no city and toward none of the citizens in this or that city who have supported the existing order must you harbor any bitterness or bear a grudge.

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In order, therefore, men of Athens, that I may no longer be held in the grip of these present miseries, enact for me those measures you have already voted for the benefit of certain others, so that neither shall anything unworthy of you become my lot nor I be compelled to become the suppliant of rival powers;

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Now, to proclaim such intentions in the various cities would be foolish, or rather quite impossible, but in whatever spirit you shall be seen treating your own fellow-citizens, such will be the expectation you will create in the minds of each group concerning your feeling toward the rest also.

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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against NeaeraClassical · Greek

The collective citizen body of Athens, which grants citizenship by decree, whose funds and military decisions are debated, and whose exclusive right to bestow citizenship is said to be undermined by Stephanus.

When the people of Athens passed a decree granting the right of citizenship to Pasion and his descendants on account of services to the state, my father favored the granting of the people’s gift, and himself gave in marriage to Apollodorus, son of Pasion, his own daughter, my sister, and she is the mother of the children of Apollodorus.

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and that he nullifies the right of your people to bestow its own favors, if it chooses to admit anyone to citizenship;

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SuppliantsClassical · Greek

The citizen body of Athens, described by Theseus as ruling itself by rotation and equal vote rather than by a despot.

The people rule in succession year by year, allowing no preference to wealth, but the poor man shares equally with the rich.

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But I require the whole city’s sanction also, which my mere wish will ensure;

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