Athenian people
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Against Leptines
The democratic citizen body of Athens, holder of the authority to grant honors and exemptions.
But perhaps he may object here that he framed his law in this way because the people are so easily gulled.
Shall we then make a law that hereafter neither Council nor Assembly shall be permitted to deliberate or to vote on any subject?
For surely he cannot mean that precisely as he thought the holders of this privilege unworthy, so he thought the people unworthy of the right to dispense its own favors to whomsoever it wishes.
Against Ctesiphon
The citizen body of Athens, addressed as jurors and political decision-makers.
About crowns of gold and proclamations in the theater—against the laws.
In a word, the king’s gold stays with Demosthenes, the dangers, fellow citizens, with you.
For be assured, fellow citizens, men will hold the city to be of like character with the man who is proclaimed.
On the Embassy
The Athenian citizen body addressed by Aeschines and responsible for deliberations, decrees, and verdicts.
Now on that day when you voted the peace, no mention was made of Cersobleptes.
Was it I, therefore, who prevented the people from imitating our forefathers, or was it you, Demosthenes, and those who were in conspiracy with you against the common good?
When he had thus spoken, Aleximachus of the deme Pelex handed to the presiding officers a motion to be read, in which it was written that the representative of Cersobleptes be permitted to join the other allies in giving the oath to Philip.
Against Androtion
The democratic citizen body of Athens, remembered as the recipient of honors and heir to imperishable civic glory.
The Allies to the Athenian People for valor and righteousness, or The Allies to the Goddess of Athens, a prize of victory;
There is another thing that he did not understand, that the Athenian democracy, never eager to acquire riches, coveted glory more than any other possession in the world.
Against Meidias
The democratic citizen body whose security, dignity, and previous condemnation of Meidias structure the argument.
The people heard what he had done.
and now once more, having stayed at home, he will address his denunciation of the people to the men who were then away on service.
Again, I expect that he will not shrink from vilifying the people and the Assembly, but will repeat what he had the effrontery to say when the plaint was first brought in:
On the Crown
The Athenian citizen body acting as assembly, People, and jury.
As one who should give to the citizens counsel unworthy of their traditions?
Men of Athens, you jurymen are not to judge public and private causes in the same temper.
Therefore now also the people of Athens will not desert the cause of Thebes and the other Greeks.