The library of Aeschines

1. Demosthenes 3 authority · 2 neutral · 9 refuted 14 citations

   Against Ctesiphon

   10 citations

   On the Embassy

   3 citations

   Against Timarchus

   1 citation

   Furthermore I will present to you Demosthenes himself as witness to the fact that at the time when Ctesiphon made his motion, Demosthenes was holding the office of Commissioner for the Repair of Walls, and so was handling public funds, imposing fines like the other magistrates, and privileged to preside in court.

2. Hesiod 3 authority 3 citations

   On the Embassy

   2 citations

   Against Ctesiphon

   1 citation

   For he says that when I was prosecuting Timarchus I said that his lewdness was a matter of common report, and that Hesiod, a good poet, says, But Common Report dies never, the voice that tongues of many men do utter.

3. Euripides 3 authority 3 citations

   Against Timarchus

   3 citations

   and again you will find Euripides declaring that this god is able not only to make known the living, revealing their true characters, but the dead as well, when he says, Common Report shows forth the good man, even though he be in the bowels of the earth;

4. Homer 2 authority 2 citations

   Against Ctesiphon

   2 citations

   Homer has sung of his fame, and has said that of all the mailed chieftains

5. Iliad Homer 2 authority 2 citations

   Against Timarchus

   2 citations

   But since you make mention of Achilles and Patroclus, and of Homer and the other poets—as though the jury were men innocent of education, while you are people of a superior sort, who feel yourselves quite beyond common folks in learning—that you may know that we too have before now heard and learned a little something, we shall say a word about this also.

6. Works and Days Hesiod 1 authority 1 citation

   Against Timarchus

   1 citation

   and Hesiod expressly represents her as a goddess, speaking in words that are very plain to those who are willing to understand, for he says, But Common Report dies never, the voice that tongues of many men do utter.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Against Timarchus

Law on hiring for prostitution · Law on slaves as lovers of free boys · Law on slaves in the gymnasia · Law on theft (penalties for confessed and denied guilt) · Law prescribing the juror's ballot formula · Spartan civic custom (rejection of disreputable speakers) · Tradition of Harmodius and Aristogeiton · ancestral Athenian precedent (punishment of unchastity) · law concerning prostitution · law governing the official scrutiny of public speakers · law on procurers · law on the conduct of adulteresses · the Athenian jurors' oath · the ancestral laws on the morality and upbringing of children (Athenian law) · the law against outrage (hybris) · the law against panders · the law on hiring a boy for prostitution · the law on prostitution disqualifying citizens from office and public speech · the law on the order of speaking in the assembly · the law on the scrutiny (dokimasia) of public speakers · the new law on the presidency of a tribe over the speaker's platform

On the Embassy

Aleximachus' motion on Cersobleptes · Amphictyonic oaths · Athenian decree on Phocian posts · Bloodshed-trial oath custom at the Palladion · Callisthenes' treaty of truce with Perdiccas · Chares' letter to the Athenian people · Date of the senate decree · Decree and testimony on Aeschines' military service · Decree authorizing additional negotiation by ambassadors · Decreed prayers for military dispatches · Law on elected ambassadors declining before the senate · Philip's letter about the oath · Plea of the Boeotians and Phocians · Proxenus' letter ¶ · Public decrees praising Aeschines · Report and testimony of the heralds of the Mysteries · Reported speech of Epameinondas in the Theban assembly · Reported statement of Cleochares of Chalcis · Senate decree ordering the ambassadors to receive oaths · Testimony and challenge concerning Aeschines' nights with messmates · Testimony of Aleximachus and the presidents · Testimony of Aristophanes and supporting witnesses · Testimony of ambassadorial colleagues at Pella · Testimony of generals and allied representatives · The law committing the defendant to the jury · decree fixing the mandate of the embassy to Philip · decree of the Athenian allies (synod) on deliberating the peace · deposition of Aristodemus · letter of Philip to the Athenian Assembly · resolution of the Greek congress on Amphipolis · testimony of Aeschines' fellow ambassadors · testimony of Amyntor of Herchia

Against Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon's decree · Aeschines' father's testimony about early restored democracy · Amphictyonic decree against Amphissa · Amphictyonic oath and curse · Aristeides' assessment of Greek tribute · Athenian laws on crowns, proclamations, and public accountability · Ctesiphon's crown decree for Demosthenes · Decree of the people of Oreus · Delphic oracle on Cirrha · Dionysiac law on theater proclamations · Enumeration of the Days · Epigram in honor of the band from Phyle · First Hermae inscription at the Stoa of the Hermae · Juror's oath · Jurors' oath ¶ · Law forbidding falsehoods in decrees of the people · Law governing ferrymen to Salamis · Law governing proclamations · Law on offices appointed by tribes, trittyes, and demes · Law on place of crown proclamation · Laws forbidding crowns before accountability · Laws on annual revision and removal of contradictory laws · Laws on public offices and audits · Letters of the king of the Persians · Old theater proclamation for orphans of war dead · Persian king's letter to the Athenians · Philocrates' first peace motion · Philocrates' resolution on oaths to Philip's ambassadors · Philocrates' second resolution for ten ambassadors · Reports of the people of the Paralus and ambassadors to Alexander · Resolution as to the Reward of the Band from Phyle · Resolution concerning seats of honor · Resolution of the Allies · Second Hermae inscription at the Stoa of the Hermae · Solon's law on cowardice and desertion · Solon's laws ¶ · Solon's laws on orderly public speaking · Third Hermae inscription at the Stoa of the Hermae · Warning against Arthmius of Zeleia

5 works in the library quote Aeschines — 8 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Demosthenes 5 citations · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation · Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · Hugo Grotius 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Aeschines is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. On the False Embassy Demosthenes 4 refuted 4 citations · 10 passages

   on the false embassy 10 passages anchored here

   Aeschines' own prior speech is repeatedly reported as an authority that condemns him.

   For surely the principles which you, Aeschines, laid down when you prosecuted Timarchus ought to have equal weight for others against you.

2. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 3

   Aeschines's speech is explicitly cited by content, though the speaker withholds full endorsement, noting rhetoricians are permitted anything.

   And so Aeschines inveighs against Demosthenes because he sacrificed victims on the seventh day after his daughter's death.

3. On the Crown Demosthenes 1 refuted 1 citation · 7 passages

   on the crown 7 passages anchored here

   The indictment is the opposing legal text that structures Demosthenes' rebuttal.

   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 …

4. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 endorsed 1 citation

   oration 88

   Aeschines's orations are explicitly recommended as preferred reading.

   Of the orators, who does not know the best—that Demosthenes surpassed all the orators in power of delivery and cleverness of thought and abundance of words, and Lysias in brevity and simplicity and continuity of thought and in concealing his cleverness?

5. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 36

   A speech of Aeschines is cited as authority that Philip could not lawfully claim Amphipolis as conquest since it belonged to Athens.

   It is observed in one of the speeches of Aeschines, that Philip, though at war with the Amphipolitans, could not lawfully take possession of Amphipolis, as a conquest, it being a city, which belonged to the Athenians.