The Prosecution
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the prosecution · my accusers · the accusers · the prosecutor · accusers · enemies · informers · our friends here · prosecution · the dead man's avengers
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On the Mysteries (Greek)
What, do you imagine, will they presume their own position to be, if they find that you are allowing prosecutions for past conduct?
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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.
Indeed, the prosecution have themselves borne witness to the fact that I am not a malefactor and cannot be charged under the law directed against malefactors, as that law is concerned with thieves and footpads, and they have omitted to prove my claim to either title.
After I had departed for Aenus and the boat on which Herodes and I had been drinking had reached Mytilene, the prosecution first of all went on board and conducted a search.
In my case the prosecution have first of all caused the trial to be held in the one place from which those charged with murder are always debarred by proclamation, the Agora:
On the Mysteries
Andocides' accusers, portrayed as informers, political opportunists, and financial predators.
What, do you imagine, will they presume their own position to be, if they find that you are allowing prosecutions for past conduct?
Now take my other accusers, Callias’ partners, who have helped to institute this trial and have financed the prosecution.
The truth is, gentlemen, that although the prosecution may have availed themselves of a perfectly valid law in lodging their information against me, they based their charge upon that old decree which is concerned with an entirely different matter.
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.
On the other hand, could they but induce my accusers here to register a charge and proclaim that I was under the statutory ban, they would, they thought, be safely rid of the whole business.
Yet at today’s trial, when they are prosecuting for prosecution to the charge before the court, they are seeking to achieve my downfall with a tissue of lies calculated to bring my public life into disrepute.
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.
we know very well that as the whole city is defiled by the criminal until he is brought to justice, the sin becomes ours and the punishment for your error falls upon us, if our prosecution is misdirected.
Now the prosecution allege that it is very difficult to prove my guilt because of my astuteness.
though if the prosecution deny me even the right of lamenting before you the misfortunes which have beset me, I do not know where to fly for refuge, so utterly startling—or should I say villainous?