Golden crown

The injury to the state is indeed no less, for the hearings for accounting are prejudiced by previous votes of thanks and crowns;

And the reason why the lawgiver also forbade the proclamation of the foreign crown in the theater unless the people vote, is this:

For the golden crown itself which is proclaimed in the city theater the law takes from the man who is crowned, and commands that it be dedicated to Athena.

As for his proposing that a crown should be given to me, and the decoration proclaimed in the Theatre, without adding the words, provided he shall first have rendered his accounts, I conceive that that also is related to my public acts, whether I am, or am not, worthy of the crown and of the proclamation before the people;

In the archonship of Chaerondas, on the sixth day of Elaphebolion, Aeschines, son of Atrometus, of Cothocidae, indicted Ctesiphon, son of Leosthenes, of Anaphlystus, before the Archon for a breach of the constitution, in that he proposed an unconstitutional decree, to wit, that Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania should be crowned with a golden crown, and that proclamation should be made i …

Now read of the crowns of the Byzantines and of the Perinthians, conferred by them upon the city for these services.