Law-courts
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in the texts
On Organization
Athenian judicial institutions, acknowledged for citizen disputes but rejected as sufficient for defense of the state.
For in the field you ought to be terrible, but in the courts sympathetic.
Yes, by heavens, men of Athens, and there are other phrases, false and injurious to the State, that have passed into your common speech, such as In the law-courts lies your salvation, and It is the ballot-box that must save the State.
On the Crown
Judicial space where accusations are tried and verdicts reached.
Being indicted for this measure, I stood my trial before this court and was acquitted, the prosecutor not getting the fifth part of the votes.
These law courts, if I am not mistaken, were built by our ancestors, not that we should convene you here to listen to us taunting one another with the secret scandal of private life, but that we should here bring home to the guilty offences against the public weal.
Had not the Council of the Areopagus, becoming aware of the facts, and seeing that you had made a most inopportune blunder, started further inquiries, arrested the man, and brought him into court a second time, the vile traitor would have slipped out of your hands and eluded justice, being smuggled out of the city by our bombastic phrase-monger.
Antidosis
The legal setting and forensic milieu from which Isocrates distinguishes his own discourse while adopting a trial form.
Nay, everyone is aware of this also, that there is a superabundance of men who produce speeches for litigants in the courts.
Then again you will find associated with them either men who are themselves in evil case or who want to ruin others, while in my company are those who of all the Hellenes lead the most untroubled lives.
for while some things in my discourse are appropriate to be spoken in a court-room, others are out of place amid such controversies, being frank discussions about philosophy and expositions of its power.
Areopagiticus
The civic courts where present citizens seek paid allotments for subsistence.
For as things now are, who among intelligent men can fail to be chagrined at what goes on, when we see many of our fellow-citizens drawing lots in front of the law-courts to determine whether they themselves shall have the necessaries of life, yet thinking it proper to support at their expense any of the Hellenes who will deign to row their ships;
Theaetetus
The Athenian law courts, where advocates persuade judges within a time limit set by the water-clock, used as the setting that separates true opinion from knowledge.
for you have a whole profession which declares that true opinion is not knowledge.
But, my friend, if true opinion and knowledge were the same thing in law courts, the best of judges could never have true opinion without knowledge;
Or do you think there are any teachers so clever as to be able, in the short time allowed by the water-clock, satisfactorily to teach the judges the truth about what happened to people who have been robbed of their money or have suffered other acts of violence, when there were no eyewitnesses?