Jurors' oaths
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5 expressionsJuror oath2 mentions
On the Mysteries (Greek) · Against Stephanus I (Greek)
And you yourselves have taken solemn oaths as the jurors who are to decide my fate:
Jurors' oath1 mention
Against Ctesiphon (Greek)
Respect them therefore, and remember the oaths which you have sworn, and the laws;
juror oaths1 mention
Against Stephanus I (Greek)
and in the interest of the laws and of the oaths which you have taken as jurors punish the man who has robbed me of a verdict by giving false testimony, and make him an example to others, remembering all that you have heard from me and bearing it in mind, if they attempt to mislead you, and meeting them at every point.
oaths of the jurors1 mention
For Phormio (Greek)
If you do this you will be faithful to your oaths, and will save the defendant, as justice bids.
the jurors' oath1 mention
Against Timarchus (Greek)
And what is the oath that you have taken?
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
The sworn commitment of jurors to decide according to law.
Respect them therefore, and remember the oaths which you have sworn, and the laws;
This is why the lawgiver placed first in the jurors’ oath these words, I will vote according to the laws.
Another law forbids crowning an official before he has rendered his accounts, and you have sworn to vote according to the laws;
Against Timarchus
The solemn oath sworn by Athenian jurors to judge strictly according to the charges presented, invoked by Aeschines to forestall irrelevant defense arguments.
And what is the oath that you have taken?
But, fellow citizens, I beg you not to accept their irrelevant pleas at all, in the first place for the sake of the oaths which you have sworn, in the second place that you may not be misled by a fellow who makes a trade of the manipulation of words.
On the Mysteries
The sworn obligation of jurors to decide fairly.
And you yourselves have taken solemn oaths as the jurors who are to decide my fate:
I have observed that in suits public and private the one thing to which you attach supreme importance is that your decision should accord with your oath;
I believe that you will decide my case impartially and, far sooner than allow my enemies to defy justice by taking my life, will uphold justice by protecting me, as your laws and your oaths as jurors require you to do.
Against Aristogeiton I
The sworn commitments binding the jurors' verdict.
How on the first of each month will you climb the Acropolis and pray for blessings on the State and on yourselves, when the defendant and his worthy father are registered there, and you have given your verdict clean against your oaths and the documents there preserved?
Against Macartatus
The sworn obligation of the jurors to render a just verdict according to law.
By doing this you will render a verdict which is just and consonant with your oaths, and in the interest of your own selves.
Against Stephanus I
The oaths taken by the jurors, invoked as a legal and moral obligation.
and in the interest of the laws and of the oaths which you have taken as jurors punish the man who has robbed me of a verdict by giving false testimony, and make him an example to others, remembering all that you have heard from me and bearing it in mind, if they attempt to mislead you, and meeting them at every point.
For Phormio
Jurors’ sworn obligation to judge according to law and justice.
If you do this you will be faithful to your oaths, and will save the defendant, as justice bids.
in order that, when you have duly learned from us and have come to know the rights of the case, you may give a verdict that is both just and in harmony with your oaths.
But this man Apollodorus, when more than twenty years have gone by, demands that you pay more heed to his malicious charges than to the laws in accordance with which you have sworn to give judgement.