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.
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.
For in the field you ought to be terrible, but in the courts sympathetic.
On the Crown
Judicial space where accusations are tried and verdicts reached.
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.
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.
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.
The fact is that, although I have known that some of the sophists traduce my occupation, saying that it has to do with writing speeches for the courts, very much as one might have the effrontery to call Pheidias, who wrought our statue of Athena, a doll-maker, or say that Zeuxis and Parrhasius practiced the same art as the sign-painters, nevertheless I have never deigned to defend myself against t …
If the discourse which is now about to be read had been like the speeches which are produced either for the law-courts or for oratorical display, I should not, I suppose, have prefaced it by any explanation.
And you will observe that those who live upon your contracts and the litigation connected with them are all but domiciled in the courts of law, while no one has ever seen me either at the council-board, or at the preliminaries, or in the courts, or before the arbitrators;
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;