The library of Demosthenes

1. Deposition witnesses 4 authority · 1 refuted 5 citations

   On the False Embassy

   1 citation

   Against Pantaenetus

   1 citation

   Against Stephanus I

   1 citation

   Apollodorus Against Callippus

   1 citation

   Against Conon

   1 citation

   To prove that these statements of mine are true, I shall call before you the witnesses who attest them.

2. Demosthenes 1 authority · 1 neutral · 1 extended · 2 endorsed 5 citations

   Against Aphobus III

   2 citations

   On the Crown

   1 citation

   On the False Embassy

   1 citation

   Against Onetor I

   1 citation

   Well then, said I, as to this I will give up to you for examination by torture the slave who has the copy of your challenge to me.

3. Apollodorus 3 authority · 1 endorsed 4 citations

   Against Stephanus I

   1 citation

   Apollodorus Against Timotheus

   1 citation

   Apollodorus Against Polycles

   1 citation

   Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

   1 citation

   The deponents testify that they were present when Apollodorus challenged Stephanus to give up his attendant slave to be put to the torture concerning the theft of the document, and Apollodorus was ready to write out the conditions on which the torture was to be administered;

4. Jurors' oath Athenian civic legal practice 3 authority 3 citations

   Against Androtion

   1 citation

   Against Aristogeiton I

   1 citation

   Against Stephanus I

   1 citation

   But if, as the law says and as your oath enjoins, you sternly and absolutely reject their excuses, and make it clear that you have withheld the reward because they have not built the ships, then every Council, men of Athens, will deliver to you the ships duly built, because they will see that in your eyes everything else is of less consequence than the law.

5. Aeschines 5 refuted 5 citations

   On the False Embassy

   4 citations

   On the Crown

   1 citation

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

6. Athenian ancestral precedent Athenian ancestors 2 authority 2 citations

   Fourth Philippic

   1 citation

   On the Crown

   1 citation

   I swear it by our forefathers who bore the brunt of warfare at Marathon, who stood in array of battle at Plataea, who fought in the sea-fights of Salamis and Artemisium, and by all the brave men who repose in our public sepulchres, buried there by a country that accounted them all to be alike worthy of the same honor —all, I say, Aeschines, not the successful and the victorious alone.

7. Athenian laws 2 authority 2 citations

   Against Meidias

   1 citation

   Against Aristogeiton I

   1 citation

   The law is that which all men ought to obey for many reasons, but above all because every law is an invention and gift of the gods, a tenet of wise men, a corrective of errors voluntary and involuntary, and a general covenant of the whole State, in accordance with which all men in that State ought to regulate their lives.

8. Decree of Callisthenes Callisthenes of Phalerum 2 authority 2 citations

   On the Crown

   1 citation

   On the False Embassy

   1 citation

   To prove the truth of these statements, please read the decree of Callisthenes and Philip’s letter, which will make every point clear.

9. Decree of Philocrates Philocrates 1 authority · 1 refuted 2 citations

   On Halonnesus

   1 citation

   On the False Embassy

   1 citation

   For the decree of Philocrates, through which you lost Amphipolis, was itself contrary to the earlier decrees by which you claimed possession of that territory.

10. Homer 2 authority 2 citations

    The Funeral Speech

    1 citation

    The Erotic Essay

    1 citation

    The Acamantidae did not fail to recall the epics in which Homer says that Acamas sailed for Troy for the sake of his mother Aethra.

11. Lycurgus 2 endorsed 2 citations

    Against Aristogeiton I

    1 citation

    Against Aristogeiton II

    1 citation

    Lycurgus did well to call Athena and the Mother of the gods to witness.

12. The Will of Demosthenes' Father Demosthenes' Father 2 authority 2 citations

    Against Aphobus II

    1 citation

    Against Aphobus III

    1 citation

    Strangest of all is it that, though they allege that my father would not permit them to let the property, they should never produce this will from which one could have learned the truth, and that having destroyed so important a piece of evidence, they should expect you to believe them on their mere word.

13. Witnesses court witnesses 2 authority 2 citations

    Against Pantaenetus

    1 citation

    Apollodorus Against Callippus

    1 citation

    To prove that I speak the truth in this, call, please, the witnesses who establish the facts.

14. laws Athenian legal authority 2 authority 2 citations

    Against Stephanus I

    1 citation

    Apollodorus Against Callippus

    1 citation

    And that I was ready on my father’s behalf to take the oath which the law prescribes when an heir is sued in court on a charge brought against one who is dead,— that, namely, I believed that my father never agreed to pay the plaintiff the money which Lycon left, and that the plaintiff was not introduced to my father by Lycon;

15. Antigone Sophocles 1 endorsed 1 citation

    On the False Embassy

    1 citation

    But Sophocles’ Antigone was frequently acted by Theodorus, and also by Aristodemus;

16. Euripides 1 refuted 1 citation

    On the False Embassy

    1 citation

    Well, Aeschines, your iambics shall now serve my turn for an observation about you.

17. Hippocrates 1 authority 1 citation

    Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

    1 citation

    On motion of Hippocrates it is decreed that the Plataeans shall be Athenians from this day, and shall have full rights as citizens, and that they shall share in all the privileges in which the Athenians share, both civil and religious, save any priesthood or religious office which belongs to a particular family, and that they shall not be eligible to the office of the nine archons but their descendants shall be.

18. Pausanias 1 refuted 1 citation

    Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

    1 citation

    Pausanias, the king of the Lacedaemonians, puffed up by this, inscribed a distich upon the tripod at Delphi, which the Greeks who had jointly fought in the battle at Plataea and in the sea-fight at Salamis had made in common from the spoils taken from the barbarians, and had set up in honor of Apollo as a memorial of their valor.

19. Phaedrus 1 authority 1 citation

    Against Aristogeiton I

    1 citation

    Not content with abandoning his father in prison when he quitted Eretria, as you have heard from Phaedrus, this unnatural ruffian refused to bury him when he died, and would not refund the expenses to those who did bury him, but actually brought a law-suit against them.

20. Philip's letter Philip II of Macedon 1 authority 1 citation

    On the False Embassy

    1 citation

    However, to prove the truth of my statements, read first the decree giving directions for the administration of the oath, then Philip’s letter, and then the decree of Philocrates, and the decree of the Assembly.

21. Plato 1 authority 1 citation

    Letters

    1 citation

    I was convinced that I spoke the truth, not because I possessed confirmation from having associated with you, but because I observed that, while gaining some renown, you were also glad to have an education, and that too in the school of Plato, the one that really has nothing to do with getting the better of people and the quackeries that concern themselves with this, but has been demonstrated to a …

22. Thucydides 1 neutral 1 citation

    Against Theocrines

    1 citation

    For being harassed by the false and malicious charges of this man at the time when some of them were turning to Philip and others to Athens, and learning that the decree which Charinus had previously indicted had again been indicted as illegal,—the decree, that is, which Thucydides proposed and which had to do with their contribution;

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

First Olynthiac

Thessalian resolution demanding restitution of Pagasae

Third Olynthiac

Ancestral Athenian civic practice · Ancestral Athenian statesmanship · Athenian laws governing the Theoric Fund · Athenian service regulations · The gods

First Philippic

Letter to the Euboeans

On the Peace

Amphictyonic decrees · Oaths for the peace · The Phocian precedent · The peace settlement with Philip

Second Philippic

Historical report of Athenian ancestors and the Great King's proposal · Oaths administered by the second embassy · Report of Theban and Argive ancestral conduct in the Persian conflict · The Peace between Athens and Philip

On Halonnesus

Athenian law on ratification by jurors · Common decree of the Greeks and the King of Persia · Decree of Callippus · Earlier Athenian decrees claiming Amphipolis · Inscription on the altar of Zeus · Philip's letter during the siege of Amphipolis · Philip's letter in the Council House promising benefits · Philip's present letter · Speeches of Philip's ambassadors

On the Chersonese

Athenian decrees denouncing Philip · Athenian laws on impeachment · Oath and terms of the peace with Philip · Philip's letter to Athens · Timotheus' speech urging an expedition to Euboea

Third Philippic

Athenian statutes relating to murder · Inscription on the bronze pillar concerning Arthmius of Zelea · Right of precedence at the Oracle

Fourth Philippic

Amphictyonic privileges · Athenian laws on ill-usage · Nature and law as authorities for parental contribution · Peace with Philip

Answer to Philip’s Letter

Philip's letter to the Athenians

Philip’s Letter

Athenian decree calling for common Greek action against Persia · Athenian decrees on Thrace · Decree of Polycrates and Athenian resolutions · Historical precedent of Anthemocritus and the Megarians · Peace and alliance terms recognizing Philip's occupation of Amphipolis

On Organization

Athenian decree against the Megarians · Athenian decree in favor of the Phliasians

On the Navy-Boards

Athenian ancestral achievements · Battle of Marathon precedent · Persian War naval victory · Voice of Heaven · Wars against the King's ancestors

For the Liberty of the Rhodians

Argive decree concerning Spartan envoys and Athenian refugees · Athenian instructions to Timotheus concerning Ariobarzanes and the treaty with the King · Oaths and agreements guaranteeing the autonomy of Chalcedon and Selymbria · Treaty ceding Greek states to the Greeks · Treaty with the King · Two Greek treaties with the King

For the People of Megalopolis

Athenian Assembly statements on Theban weakening and Spartan recovery · Historical precedent of Athenian rescue of Lacedaemonians, Thebans, and Euboeans · Precedent of Peloponnesian appeal to Athens against Sparta · Sworn agreement between Athens and the Messenians · Treaty between Megalopolis and Thebes recorded on pillars

On the Treaty with Alexander

Common peace voluntary participation clause · Compact and oaths ratifying the general peace · General peace armed-exiles exclusion clause · General peace constitutional preservation clause · General peace enemy clause · General peace freedom and independence clause · General peace maritime navigation clause · General peace public-safety safeguards clause · Joint agreement harbor and shipbuilding restriction · Peace instructions to treat violators as enemies

On the Crown

Philip's letter to the Council and People of Athens · Ambassadors' Dispatch · Aristonicus' decree crowning Demosthenes · Athenian Decree in the Archonship of Heropythus, Elaphebolion 25 · Athenian Decree in the Archonship of Heropythus, Munychion 30 · Athenian decrees appointing public thanksgiving · Athenian rule against repeated prosecution · Athenian statutes and unwritten laws of nature · Ctesiphon's decree crowning Demosthenes · Decree of Demosthenes · Decree of the Byzantines and Perinthians · Decree of the Chersonesites · Decree on ambassadors concerning the seized vessels · Decrees against the Amphissians of Locri · Decrees honoring Nausicles, Charidemus, and Diotimus · Demosthenes' trierarchy reform decree · Depositions about Aeschines and Anaxinus · Depositions about Delos advocacy · Depositions on Demosthenes' public services · Laws and judicial oath of Athens · Letters of Philip to Peloponnesus · List of Expeditions in Aid · New schedule under Demosthenes' statute · Old schedule for trierarchic service · Oracle of Zeus at Dodona ¶ · Philip's Letter to the Peloponnesian Allies · Philip's Reply to the Athenians · Philip's Reply to the Thebans · Public epitaph for the fallen · Record Office letters concerning Amphissa · Record of Dates · Reply of the Thebans · Second decree on ambassadors concerning the vessels · Statute on proclamation of crowns · Statutes governing crowns, audits, proclamations, and public records · Sundry Resolutions of the Amphictyons · Tragic blank verse performed by Aeschines · Validated earlier decrees honoring Demosthenes

On the False Embassy

Affidavit of refusal and illness record · Athenian law imposing death for unlawful embassy conduct · Athenian laws and decrees of the people and Council · Athenian statutory commination · Convention between Philip and the Phocians · Council resolution on the embassy report · Decree concerning the Olynthians · Decree condemning ambassadors · Decree directing administration of the oath · Decree of Diophantus · Decree of Timarchus against arms for Philip · Decree of the Assembly · Decree proposed by Eubulus · Decree, records, and depositions concerning Aeschines' embassy · Decrees of Miltiades and Themistocles · Decrees of the Amphictyonic Council · Deposition concerning the embassy · Deposition of Apollophanes and others · Deposition on Philip's answer to Eucleides · Diophantus' report about the Olynthian woman · Evidence of the Olynthian witnesses · Excerpt from Philip's first letter about future benefits · House of Thyestes · Letter from Philip to Athens · Letters of Philip · Oaths to the Thessalians and Thebans · Oracles warning Athens · Peace and alliance with Philip · Peace negotiated by Callias · Philip's letter defending the envoys' delay · Philip's two letters of summons · Philocrates' decree on peace, alliance, and Phocis · Philocrates' resolution · Public inscription against Arthmius · Solon's elegiac poem on Salamis · Solon's elegiacs on civic corruption and law · Statutory investigation of public conduct · Terms of the peace with Philip · Treaty of Friendship between the Athenians and the Phocians · Trojan War tradition · Verses on Rumor · Witness evidence concerning the Hellespont opportunity · Witnesses on Phryno's son sent to Philip · Youth oath in the temple of Aglaurus

Against Leptines

Alternative law proposed by the speaker's side · Clauses of Leptines' law · Conon's inscription · Decree for the Corinthian exiles · Decree honoring Chabrias · Decree honoring Epicerdes · Decree rewarding Lysimachus · Decrees concerning Leucon · Decrees honoring the Thasians and Byzantines · Decrees in favor of Conon · Decrees or laws granting immunity · Demophantus inscription on rewards for defenders of the democracy · Draco's homicide laws · Existing laws on intervals between public services · Hermes-Portico inscription · Historical precedent of repayment to the Lacedaemonians · Inscription for descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton · Inventory of Chabrias' exploits · Lacedaemonian and Theban laws and customs · Law against deceiving the people by false promises · Law against retrying the same issue · Law concerning holding office while indebted to the treasury · Law constituting the original legislative commission · Law forbidding cheating in the marketplace · Law limiting commissioners to one service · Law on single penalty assessment · Law punishing debasement of coinage · Law validating rewards granted by the people · Leptines' law abolishing exemptions · Leptines' law abolishing or restricting immunity · Prosecution's substitute law · Solonian law against speaking ill of the dead · Solonian law on legislative procedure · Solonian law on testamentary disposition · Statute on the trierarchy · Story of Themistocles building the walls

Against Meidias

Assembly adverse votes in festival and public-law cases · Council preliminary decree dispatching cavalry · Delphic and other oracles on ancestral dances and garlands · Deposition of Pammenes · Deposition on ejectment delay · Evegorus' decree on festival protections · History of Alcibiades · Jury oath and laws · Law concerning arbitrators · Law concerning bribery · Law concerning the Mysteries and Dionysia · Law on assault and unlawful acts against free persons and slaves · Law on plaints concerning the Dionysia · Laws of damage, battery, assault, and homicide · Legal protection against striking a citizen · Monumental honors for Harmodius and Aristogeiton · Oracle from Dodona to the Athenians · Witness statement on Meidias before the Council · Witness statement on Nicodemus murder indictment · Witness statement on Strato's arbitration · Witness testimony of trireme commanders

Against Androtion

Androtion's contested decree for the Council crown · Androtion's public explanation for melting the crowns · Androtion's tax-collection decree requiring the Eleven · Athenian laws on temple exclusion · Athenian statutes and principles of the constitution · Honorific inscriptions on Athenian crowns · Law denying Council reward when warships are not built · Law of prostitution barring civic speech and proposals · Law on preliminary decrees and rewards · Law on public-debt disqualification inherited from father · Satyrus's testimony about collections · Solonian procedures for theft and impiety · Tax-collection accounts · Witness document on Androtion's life

Against Aristocrates

Ancestral Athenian practice of honoring benefactors · Aristocrates' decree protecting Charidemus · Athenian citizenship grant to Ariobarzanes and Philiscus · Athenian emergency decree after Charidemus' later convention · Athenian honors for tyrannicide-like liberators · Athenian laws governing involuntary homicide at the Palladium · Athenian rules of lawful homicide at the Delphinium · Athenian rules of trial at Phreatto · Athenodorus' sworn convention with Cersobleptes · Chares' letter about Philip at Maroneia · Charidemus' letter promising to recover the Chersonese · Convention with Cephisodotus · Convention with Chares · Decree concerning the Amphipolitan hostages · Deposition about Charidemus' early actions · Dispatch of Iphicrates · Dispatch of Timotheus · Evidence of the captains · Glauco's decree electing ten ambassadors · Honorific decrees for benefactors of Athens · Hypothetical Philiscus seizure decree · Lacedaemonian written license to the King of Persia · Later convention drafted by Charidemus · Letter from the two Thracian kings · Letter of Cersobleptes after the ambassadors' arrival · Letters from authorities in the Chersonese · Letters of Cersobleptes · Ordinance preserving the homicide laws from alteration or frustration · Precedent of Meno of Pharsalus · Precedent of Perdiccas of Macedonia · Precedents of Salamis and Marathon · Punishment precedents of Themistocles and Cimon · Reported assurance reply of Philocrates son of Ephialtes · Statute against laws applying to a single individual · Statute of Draco on information against returning exiles · Statute of the Areopagus Concerning Homicide · Statute on hostages after violent death · Statute on killing a violent illegal seizer in immediate self-defense · Statute on killing an exiled murderer outside prohibited places · Statute on killing or arresting murderers in one's own territory · Statute on lawful killings in athletics, battle, and protection of household women · Statute on pursuit or violent seizure of a homicide beyond the frontier · Sworn treaty with Athens · Traditional legends of the Areopagus · first homicide statute · second homicide statute · statute on hostages and general legislation · statute on lawful killing and satisfaction

Against Timocrates

Alien acts · Androtion’s tax-collection decrees · Aristophon decree appointing a commission of inquiry · Athenian precedents against objectionable statutes under Evander · Beneficial statutes of Solon and Draco · Council oath containing the no-imprisonment formula · Crown inscriptions of allied dedications and victories · Diocles’ law on effective dates of statutes · Epicrates decree on the Panathenian Legislative Committee · Euctemon’s decree · Existing statutes on doubled and tenfold debts · Hypothetical second law canceling bail under Timocrates’ law · Law against petitions concerning sentences before payment · Law barring reconsideration of prior judgments and adjudications · Law forbidding contrary laws without repeal and substitution · Law imposing death for debasing currency · Law invalidating acts and judgments under the Thirty Tyrants · Law of Timocrates · Law of Timocrates allowing sureties for debtors · Law requiring six-thousand-vote permission for franchise restoration or debt remission · Law requiring universal application of laws · Law validating judgments under democratic government · Laws Concerning Theft, Maltreatment of Parents, and Desertion · Laws giving juries discretion over corporal or pecuniary penalties · Locrian eye-for-eye law · Locrian legislative procedure · Locrian one-eyed man statute · Made by direction of Androtion inscription · Oath of the Heliasts · Observation that laws are the character of the State · Old-established laws after the archonship of Eucleides · Ratification of Laws · Solon’s saying on laws as the currency of the State · Statute on imprisonment of Athenian citizens offering three sureties · Statute requiring equal application of laws to every citizen · Statutes and decrees of the People of Athens and the Council of Five-hundred · Statutes applicable to tax-farmers · Statutes assigning enemy property to the State · Statutes enacted by Solon · Timocrates’ prior law on imprisonment until payment of pecuniary penalties · law providing punishments for would-be criminals

Against Aristogeiton I

Depositions concerning Zobia and family offenses · Documents preserved on the Acropolis · Indictment in the action over Aristogeiton’s sister · Information against Aristogeiton · Law governing allotment and assignment of jurors · Law on erasure and substitution for malicious debt entry · Laws of Athens · Orphic teaching on Justice beside Zeus · Prison inmates’ resolution against Aristogeiton · Proverb about seeing and hearing without acting · Registers of archons and collectors of taxes · Witnesses on violence against Aristogeiton’s mother · Wooden table of the law deposited in the temple of the Goddess

Against Aristogeiton II

Ancestral Athenian laws · Aristogeiton's indictment of Hypereides' decree as unconstitutional · Athenian constitutional decrees · Athenian law forbidding state-debtors and disfranchised persons to address the Assembly · Hypereides' decree reinstating disfranchised citizens · Law disqualifying plaintiffs who fail to obtain one-fifth of the votes · Law imposing death for citing a nonexistent law · Procedure for objections against decrees or laws · Solon's ordinance on penalties for private citizens and magistrates

Against Aphobus I

Depositions of witnesses in the case · Law on a guardian's forfeiture of a ward's dowry · Laws on the leasing of orphans' estates

Against Aphobus II

Aphobus's First Speech (Address to the Jury) · Depositions of Witnesses · Evidence of the Grandfather's Debt to the State

Against Aphobus III

Deposition on Aphobus's Admission Regarding Milyas's Freedom · Law Requiring the Letting of an Orphan's Estate · Law on Guardians' Liability for Misappropriated Funds · Record and Verdict of the Former Trial Against Aphobus

Against Onetor I

Athenian law on guardians, dowries, and damages · Deposition of Pasiphon · Deposition of Timocrates on the dowry loan agreement · Deposition on Onetor's plea for Aphobus before the jury · Depositions of witnesses to Onetor's, Timocrates's, and Aphobus's answers about the dowry payment · Depositions on Aphobus's continued farming of the land and refusal of torture · Depositions on the dates of the marriage and divorce · Depositions on the timeline of the speaker's citizenship and suit

Against Onetor II

Deposition of witnesses concerning Onetor's mortgage pillars · Mortgage-pillar inscriptions (horoi) on the house and land

Against Zenothemis

The Depositions (sworn witness testimony) · The Law (Athenian statute on maritime loan suits) · The Plea (special plea of inadmissibility)

Against Apaturius

Law Limiting Guaranties to One Year · Law on Actions for Merchants and Shipowners (including the special plea against baseless suits)

Against Phormio

Athenian law against resident export of grain to non-Athenian markets · Athenian law defining mercantile suits (dikai emporikai) · Athenian law on the scope of the special plea (paragraphe) · Deposition of witnesses to the summons of Phormio · Depositions establishing the speaker's public grain benefactions · Paerisades's decree permitting duty-free grain export to Athens · Testimony and customs records concerning events in Bosporus · The complaint from the previous year's lawsuit against Phormio · The maritime loan agreement between the speaker and Phormio · The special plea entered by Phormio's side in the previous year's lawsuit

Against Lacritus

Commercial laws governing mercantile contracts · Deposition of Aratus of Halicarnassus · Deposition of Archenomides son of Archedamas of Anagyrus · Deposition of Erasicles on the outward cargo · Deposition of Hippias son of Athenippus on the outward cargo · Deposition of witnesses present at the loan · Depositions of Apollonides, Erasicles, and Hippias on the shipwreck · Law on loans for vessels bringing grain or specified articles to Athens · Maritime agreement between Androcles, Nausicrates, Artemo, and Apollodorus · Supremacy clause within the maritime agreement · Written affidavits on the outward cargo · Written affidavits on the shipwreck

For Phormio

Acropolis award · Articles of Agreement for Pasio’s lease of the bank and shield-factory · Athenian law barring suits after release or discharge · Athenian statute of limitations · Challenge concerning the lease documents · Deposition on division of property and release of Phormio · Deposition on later bank lease to Xeno, Euphraeus, Euphro, and Callistratus · Deposition on lodging-house under the will and praise of Phormio · Deposition on the Acropolis release · Deposition that Pasicles makes no complaint · Depositions concerning Apollodorus’s prior actions · Depositions on Phormio’s and Apollodorus’s character · Depositions on Phormio’s services to the state · Depositions on the baseness of Apollodorus · Depositions on the custody of Pasio’s will · Depositions on the lease and bank manager · Depositions that Pasio belonged to Archestratus · Final law and depositions · List of monies and public services · Pasio’s will

Against Pantaenetus

Challenge concerning torture · Law on magistrates' competency · Law on release and discharge · Laws concerning heiresses · Mining law · Pantaenetus' complaint

Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes

The Depositions concerning death, lack of suit against Demaretus, and travel to Bosporus · The Depositions concerning release and settlement · The Law barring actions after release and discharge · The Law limiting orphan guardianship suits to five years · The current complaint · The former complaint against the father

Against Boeotus I

Complaint · Decision setting aside judgement for non-appearance · Deposition on Mantitheus's tenth-day naming · Depositions on Mantias's names for Mantitheus and Boeotus · Jurors' oath to decide uncovered cases justly · Law on parents' authority to name and renounce children · Law on penalty for drawing lots with two tablets · Laws concerning parents

Against Boeotus II

Deposition and challenge on arbitration refusal · Deposition of Crito · Deposition of friends concerning Mytilene reward · Depositions of Timocrates and Promachus · Depositions on inheritance division and reserved house · Depositions on loans, mines, and funeral debt · Depositions on suits and arbitrator proceedings · Depositions on the Areopagus assault charge · Law concerning the marriage-portion · Law declaring recovery of the marriage-portion · Law forbidding abuse of dead fathers · Laws commanding brothers to give a woman in marriage · Testimony of Timocrates about house sale · Testimony of those present before the arbitrator · Witnesses establishing the mother's genealogy and marriages

Against Spudias

Deposition concerning seals and custody of the papers · Deposition of Aristogenes · Deposition of the arbitrators · Deposition on terms of Spudias's marriage · Depositions about pawned goods, hangings, and funeral expense · Inventory of possessions · Law denying right of action for mortgaged property against mortgage holders · Papers left by the wife of Polyeuctus · Will of Polyeuctus

Against Phaenippus

Phaenippus' declaration of debts · challenge concerning exchange of farm for all property · deposition and declaration concerning Phaenippus' inventory · deposition of Aeantides and Theoteles · depositions and laws supporting the postponement argument · depositions concerning the mine and other matters · depositions proving Phaenippus inherited two public-service estates · law about the exchange of estates · law making witnessed mutual covenants binding · law prescribing the inventory oath and mining-property exemption · law requiring inventory within three days after oath · legal inventory oath · speaker's inventory

Against Macartatus

Athenian law on archon protection of orphans, heiresses, and extinct families · Athenian law on uprooting olive trees · Delphic Oracle on Sacrifice and Offerings for the Dead · Deposition on Phylomachê's Prior Judgment · Depositions on Polemon and Phylomachê's Full-Sibling Relationship · Funeral Law of Solon · Heiress Marriage and Dowry Law · Intestate Succession Law · Law on Citation after Adjudication · Laws on Bloodshed, Burial, Purification, and Sacred Debts · Remaining Depositions on Eubulides' Kinship and Prior Claims · law of Solon on male-line precedence

Against Leochares

Affidavit of objections · Clan and deme depositions · Depositions on pedigree and inheritance facts · Law awarding inheritances to families and nearest male-line kin · Law defining lawfully born children · Law excluding hearsay evidence except for deceased persons · Law forbidding an adopted person to create another adopted son · Law of Solon on adopted sons and wills

Against Stephanus I

Athenian law on written depositions and verdict scope · Complaint and Counter-Plea · Deposition about stolen document · Deposition of Cephisophon · Deposition of Deinias · Deposition of Stephanus, Endius, and Scythes · Lease of the Bank · Reported testimony of Nicocles and Pasicles · Special plea of Phormio · Will of Pasio · counter-plea · will

Against Stephanus II

Deposition on Apollodorus' challenge to Phormio over female slaves · Law forbidding parties to testify in their own suits · Law making contrary-to-law testimony actionable · Law on adjudication of inheritances and heiresses · Law on conspiracy, bribery of courts, and corrupt public advocacy · Law on hearsay evidence from the dead, absent, or sick · Law on lawful betrothal and legitimacy · Law on sons of heiresses and maintenance of mothers · Law on testamentary disposition without lawful male children · Law requiring equal laws for all Athenians · Law validating a father's will if lawful sons die after reaching manhood

Against Evergus and Mnesibulus

Decree of the people assigning debtors · Decree ordering confiscation of property · Decree proposed by Chaeridemus · Depositions about seizure, payment, injury, and death · Depositions concerning the challenge and woman · Interpretation and advice of the Interpreters · Law of Periander · Law on false testimony · Laws of Draco on the inscribed slab · Senate decree to recover what was due · deposition on payment and default · depositions regarding Evergus and Mnesibulus · law of binding agreements · law on kin prosecution and oath inquiry · laws and decrees authorizing security-taking

Against Olympiodorus

Solon's law on acts under female influence · challenge regarding the money and agreement copies · deposition from relatives · deposition of Androcleides · deposition of witnesses to the challenge · depositions produced by Olympiodorus in the prior trial · depositions proving equal division and later seizure · depositions showing responsibility for bringing the case to court · law allowing estate claims · law compelling archon and property outcomes · law governing summons · law governing the agreement

Apollodorus Against Timotheus

Timotheus's public oath to indict Iphicrates · bank memoranda and account books of Apollodorus' father's bank · depositions concerning the loans, timber, bowls, brother's testimony, and bank copies · law on false testimony and subornation · law prescribing a charge for witness failure to appear · law providing oath-based postponement for a witness · laws on deceiving the people by a promise

Apollodorus Against Polycles

Aristophon decree ordering launch and dispatch of ships · deposition and decree of the people on Apollodorus' borrowing, sailing, and public thanks · deposition on Mnesilochus, Phrasierides, Hagnias, and Praxicles succession · deposition on Polycles and Euripides' former trierarchy agreement · deposition on Polycles' answer that Apollodorus was romancing · depositions on Polycles' answers at Thasos and Timomachus' lodging · depositions on Tenedos refusal and borrowing from Cleanax and Eperatus · depositions on military supplies, despatching board, pay records, and sailors · depositions on warnings to Polycles by Euctemon, Deinias, Pythodorus, and Apollodorus of Leuconoë · law forbidding harboring or transporting an exile · law regarding successors in the trierarchy · laws and decrees of the senate and the people

On the Trierarchic Crown

Aristophon's accusation against trierarchs who let out their trierarchies · Athenian decision by show of hands after the sea-fight against Alexander · Decree on awarding the trierarchic crown · Decree on ships brought to the pier

Apollodorus Against Callippus

Bank books entry for Lycon's deposit · Sworn statements · Written and oral instructions to pay Cephisiades

Apollodorus Against Nicostratus

Law confiscating estates for unpaid state guarantees · Law directing indictment for false citation · Law granting three fourths to the private citizen filing an information · Law on persons ransomed from the enemy

Against Conon

Areopagus precedent concerning the father of the priestess at Brauron · Ariston's oath challenge · challenge for examination by torture · laws on evil-speaking, battery, wounding, and murder · statutes concerning assault and highway robbers

Against Callicles

The Challenge and remaining Depositions · The Depositions and The Challenge concerning rubbish, road narrowing, and oaths · The Depositions concerning prior property designs and Callarus suits · The Depositions concerning trees, tombs, and non-opposition · The Depositions of the neighbors

Against Dionysodorus

Athenian law governing the validity of voluntary agreements and the obligations of shipowners and supercargoes · The Challenge (written challenge proposing arbitration, tendered to Dionysodorus) · The Loan Agreement (maritime loan contract between Dionysodorus, Parmeniscus, Pamphilus, and the creditors)

Against Eubulides

Citizenship law dating clause tied to the archonship of Eucleides · Decree ordering the revision of the citizen registers (diapsephisis decree) · Law against reproaching citizens for market trade · Law of Aristophon re-enacting Solon's market-trade law · Law of Solon on the right to trade in the market · Law prohibiting hearsay testimony · Law regarding idleness

Against Theocrines

Bill of Scironides recording Theocrines' admitted debt to the tribe Leontis · Decree granting Prytaneum maintenance to Charidemus, son of Ischomachus · Decree of Antimedon on behalf of the people of Tenedos · Decree of Moerocles for the protection of merchants · Law declaring debtor status effective from the date the penalty is incurred · Law on erasure of debt entries upon partial payment · Law on indictment for non-insertion in the register, before the Thesmothetae · Law on those who lodge denunciations and fail to prosecute them · Law penalizing wrongful assertion of a slave's freedom · Law permitting indictment of debtors to the treasury, to Athena, or to the eponymous heroes · Law protecting merchants and ship-owners from baseless denunciations

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

Decree granting citizenship to Pasion · Law on cohabitation between an alien and an Athenian · Law on falsely betrothing an alien woman as one's own relative · Law on repayment of the marriage portion after divorce · Law on unlawful imprisonment on a charge of adultery · The Law Regarding Adultery · The Oath of the Venerable Priestesses · The Terms of Reconciliation between Stephanus and Epaenetus · The senatorial (bouleutic) oath · the ancestral law inscribed at the sanctuary of Dionysus at Limnae · the judgment against Archias the hierophant for impiety · the laws governing the bestowal of Athenian citizenship

The Funeral Speech

the Athenian law governing selection of the public funeral orator

The Erotic Essay

the laws of Solon ¶

Exordia

Iphicrates' maxim on risking battle

Letters

oracles of Zeus of Dodona and the Pythian Apollo · the oracles of Zeus of Dodona

14 works in the library quote Demosthenes — 40 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Demosthenes 32 citations · Against Aristocrates 2 citations · Second Olynthiac 1 citation · Second Philippic 1 citation · Fourth Philippic 1 citation · Philip's letter 1 citation · Against Timocrates 1 citation · Against Pantaenetus 1 citation

Hugo Grotius 15 citations · Aeschines 14 citations · Demosthenes 6 citations · Basil of Caesarea 1 citation · Clement of Alexandria 1 citation · Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · Hyperides 1 citation · Lysander Spooner 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 Demosthenes is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 11 authority · 1 neutral 12 citations · 13 passages

   ch. 11 3 passages anchored here · chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 20 · ch. 22 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 30 · ch. 32 2 passages anchored here · ch. 33

   and 1 more chapter

   ch. 47

   Demosthenes' speech is cited as authority for the caution against treaties that verge on servitude.

   Demosthenes in his speech on the liberty of the Rhodians says, all nations ought to guard against forming such leagues, as approaching too near to servitude.

2. Against Ctesiphon Aeschines 3 authority · 7 refuted 10 citations · 39 passages

   against ctesiphon 39 passages anchored here

   Aeschines explicitly presents Demosthenes' decree as witness against Demosthenes.

   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.

3. On the Embassy Aeschines 2 neutral · 1 refuted 3 citations · 6 passages

   on the embassy 6 passages anchored here

   Aeschines cites this decree, moved by Demosthenes, simply as neutral documentary proof of a fact about Demosthenes' conduct, not to endorse or refute the decree itself.

   and so eager was Demosthenes for the business, that in order to make it possible for Aristodemus to be a member of our embassy without financial loss to himself, he moved that we elect envoys to go to the cities in which Aristodemus was under contract to act, and beg in his behalf the cancelling of his forfeitures.

4. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 3 authority 3 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 16 · ch. 31 2 passages anchored here · letter ii 2 passages anchored here

   Demosthenes's oration is explicitly named and quoted (in Greek).

   Demosthenes in oratione de libertate Rhodiorum:

5. Against Aphobus III Demosthenes 1 neutral · 1 extended 2 citations · 4 passages

   against aphobus iii 4 passages anchored here

   Demosthenes repeatedly cites his own formal challenge document, elaborating and extending its terms as proof of his good faith.

   Well then, said I, as to this I will give up to you for examination by torture the slave who has the copy of your challenge to me.

6. On the False Embassy Demosthenes 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations · 4 passages

   on the false embassy 4 passages anchored here

   A decree authored by Demosthenes is cited and read as evidence for his foresight.

   Finding that you had got to the end of the regular Assemblies, and that there was no meeting left, and observing that the envoys were still wasting time at Athens instead of starting at once, I proposed a decree as a member of the Council, to which the Assembly had given authority, directing the envoys to sail immediately, and the general Proxenus to convey them to any place in which he should asc …

7. Against Timarchus Aeschines 1 refuted 1 citation · 3 passages

   against timarchus 3 passages anchored here

   Aeschines repeatedly reports and explicitly refutes Demosthenes's anticipated defense arguments across several paragraphs.

   When, therefore, I have dared to bring impeachment against Timarchus for having prostituted himself, in order that I may deprive him of the right to address the people in assembly, Demosthenes says that the very act complained of calls, not for an accuser’ s arraignment, but for the testimony of the tax-gatherer who collected this tax from Timarchus.

8. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 1 citation

   letter 3

   Basil references an anecdote about Demosthenes to frame his comparison with Candidianus.

   For he, since he furnished the means for only a few choristers and flute-players, no longer thought fit to be called Demosthenes, but a chorus-master;

9. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages

   book 6 3 passages anchored here

   Demosthenes is cited repeatedly across three paragraphs as both borrower and source on themes of danger, zeal, and mortality.

   " But also, when Demosthenes had said, "To all of us death is owed," and the rest, Phanocles in his Loves, or Beautiful Ones, writes, "But the thread of the Fates is not to be undone, nor can any of us who feed upon the earth ever flee it.

10. Against Onetor I Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

    against onetor i 2 passages anchored here

    The speaker cites his own formal challenge document as authoritative proof that Onetor refused a fair and certain test of the facts.

    But Onetor, when I made this challenge to him, and all those present declared that my proposal was just, refused to have recourse to this certain test, but, as though there were other and surer proofs regarding such matters than torture and testimony, he produced no witnesses to prove that he had paid the dowry, nor would he give up for torture the female slaves who knew the fact, to prove that hi …

11. On the Crown Demosthenes 1 endorsed 1 citation · 4 passages

    on the crown 4 passages anchored here

    The decree is read and defended by Demosthenes as a legitimate and beneficial measure.

    In the archonship of Mnesiphilus, on the thirtieth day of Hecatombaeon, the tribe Pandionis then holding the presidency, Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania, proposed that, whereas Philip has sent ambassadors and has agreed to articles of peace, it be resolved by the Council and People of Athens, with a view to the ratification of the peace as accepted by vote of the first Assembly, to cho …

12. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation

    oration 88

    Demosthenes's oratory is cited and ranked highest but the passage explicitly advises against reading him extensively, a neutral/qualified stance.

    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?

13. Against Demosthenes Hyperides 1 authority 1 citation

    against demosthenes

    The speaker treats Demosthenes' own decree as binding authority: because Demosthenes himself proposed referring the case to the Areopagus, its resulting report against him is presented as self-imposed and therefore decisive.

    You denied having done so and drew up a challenge, which you laid before the people in the form of a decree entrusting the matter on which you were accused to the council of the Areopagus.

14. The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 neutral 1 citation

    ch. 14

    Demosthenes' orations are named as an example of a unique intellectual production tied to its author.

    Who can suppose that the poems of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, or the orations of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Burke, would ever have seen the light, had not Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke themselves existed?