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  • Speech 21: Against Meidias
  • Speech 22: Against Androtion
  • Speech 23: Against Aristocrates
  • Speech 24: Against Timocrates
  • Speech 25: Against Aristogeiton 1
  • Speech 26: Against Aristogeiton 2
  • Speech 27: Against Aphobus 1
  • Speech 28: Against Aphobus 2
  • Speech 29: Against Aphobus 3
  • Speech 30: Against Onetor 1
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    Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30

    Against Aristocrates

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    [66] First, then, in ancient times, as we are told by tradition, in this court alone the gods condescended both to render and to demand satisfaction for homicide, and to sit in judgement upon contending litigants,--Poseidon, according to the legend, deigning to demand justice from Ares on behalf of his son Halirrothius, and the twelve gods to adjudicate between the Eumenides and Orestes. These are ancient stories; let us pass to a later date. This is the only tribunal which no despot, no oligarchy, no democracy, has ever dared to deprive of its jurisdiction in cases of murder, all men agreeing that in such cases no jurisprudence of their own devising could be more effective than that which has been devised in this court. In addition to these great merits, here, and here alone, no convicted defendant and no defeated prosecutor has ever made good any complaint against the justice of the verdict given.


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    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
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    Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
    OCLC: 10903477
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