The Pnyx
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Pnyx · the Pnyx
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Against Ctesiphon (Greek)
You hear, fellow citizens, how the lawgiver commands that the man who is crowned by the people be proclaimed among the people, on the Pnyx, at a meeting of the assembly, and nowhere else;
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Against Ctesiphon
The assembly-place where a people's crown should be proclaimed.
You hear, fellow citizens, how the lawgiver commands that the man who is crowned by the people be proclaimed among the people, on the Pnyx, at a meeting of the assembly, and nowhere else;
Against Timarchus
The hill in Athens used for meetings of the Assembly, referenced as the site of Timarchus's proposed dwelling-houses and of his reputed nocturnal activity.
The Senate of the Areopagus appeared before the people in accordance with the resolution that Timarchus had introduced in the matter of the dwelling-houses on the Pnyx.
Now when in the course of his speech he declared that the Areopagus disapproved the proposition of Timarchus, and said, You must not be surprised, fellow citizens, if Timarchus is better acquainted than the Senate of the Areopagus with this lonely spot and the region of the Pnyx, then you applauded and said Autolycus was right, for Timarchus was indeed acquainted with it.