The sources of Against Timarchus

1. Euripides 3 authority 3 citations · 4 passages

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   Cited as poetic authority corroborating the claim that Common Report is a divine and truthful witness.

   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;

2. Iliad Homer 2 authority 2 citations · 12 passages

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   Invoked twice as an authoritative poetic source, first for Common Report's divinity and later (by the anticipated opposing speech) for the exemplary friendship of Achilles and Patroclus.

   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.

3. Demosthenes 1 refuted 1 citation · 3 passages

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   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.

4. Works and Days Hesiod 1 authority 1 citation

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   Cited as poetic authority for the explicit divinity of Common Report, with Aeschines noting that decorous men praise these verses.

   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.

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against timarchus 21 sources

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