The Prosecution
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On the murder of Herodes
The collective group of accusers (including the individual prosecutor and his associates) who brought the apagoge charge against the defendant, framed throughout as manipulating procedure and evidence.
they are handed over to the authorities as the ancient laws of your country ordain.
and the object of this arbitrary behavior of yours is to have me put to death without just cause.
Hence you must not use the speech for the prosecution to discover whether your laws are good or bad:
On the Mysteries
Andocides' accusers, portrayed as informers, political opportunists, and financial predators.
But that is not enough.
The prosecution were bound to behave thus, gentlemen;
And now, gentlemen, consider how my accusers stand with regard to the laws.
On the Choreutes
The collective body of accusers, led by Philocrates, prosecuting the defendant for the boy's death, portrayed by him as malicious, bribed, and inconsistent litigants.
My own attitude to my defence, gentlemen, is very different from that of my accusers to their prosecution.
The law runs that the ban comes into force as soon as anyone has a charge of murder registered against him;
I, on the other hand, consider that my first duty is to reply to the charge before the court by giving you a complete account of the facts.
The First Tetralogy
The collective of kinsmen/representatives of the dead man who bring and argue the homicide charge against the defendant, delivering the first and third speeches of the tetralogy.
Such are the motives which drove him to sin as he did.
We proved in our first speech that he is the murderer;
You see how unjustifiably my accusers are attacking me.