witnesses
quoted 7 times by 7 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Witnesses the group
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
1 quoted · 6 reported
6 neutralin the voice of Chief Judge 1 , Conon's side 1 , Demosthenes 1 , The judge 1 , chief judge 1 , king 1 , the speaker (nephew of Cleonymus, plaintiff) 1
quoted by
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in the voice of Conon's side
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Against Conon Demosthenes 1 neutral 1 citation
The arbitration narrative reports formal speech acts imposed on witnesses.
leading to the altar one at a time our witnesses who were present and putting them on oath;
against conon ¶ -
in the voice of Demosthenes
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Against Meidias Demosthenes 1 neutral 1 citation
Calling witnesses is a forensic speech act.
To prove the truth of this, please call my witnesses, so that you may know that, before obtaining legal redress for my former injuries, I have again been insulted in the way that you have heard.
against meidias ¶ -
in the voice of the speaker (nephew of Cleonymus, plaintiff)
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On The Estate of Cleonymus Isaeus 1 neutral 1 citation · 4 passages
Records the speaker's repeated formal calls for witnesses to testify to specific facts supporting the nephews' account of the will, Cleonymus's later conduct, and his quarrel with Pherenicus.
Next call witnesses to testify that the friends of our opponents, including Cephisander, were of opinion that the parties should share the estate, and that we should have one third of all that Cleonymus possessed.
on the estate of cleonymus ¶ -
in the voice of Chief Judge
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Kātyāyana Smṛti Kātyāyana 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The passage contains an explicit direct address in quotation form instructing witnesses to testify truthfully, introduced by the Chief Judge's procedural act of consoling/instructing them.
The Chief Judge, in the presence of the plaintiff and defendant, should appoint all the witnesses in the courtroom, consoling them with this procedure:
chapter 29 ¶ -
in the voice of chief judge
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Manusmṛti Manu 1 neutral 1 citation
This is a direct instructional speech act formally addressed to witnesses, quoted within the text.
79 // "Whatever you know of the mutual conduct of these two in this affair, speak all that truthfully, for here you are the witnesses.
chapter 8 ¶ -
in the voice of king
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Viṣṇu Smṛti Viṣṇu 1 neutral 1 citation · 12 passages
The passage frames these cosmological truth-statements as content the king causes the witnesses to hear
The worlds which are for those who commit great sins, and those which are for those who commit minor sins, are also for false witnesses.
chapter 8 ¶ -
in the voice of The judge
the marks
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- relied on as a source of legitimacy
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- extended
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