The Greek orators

by J. F. Dobson

[492] E.g. many of the private speeches of Demosthenes refer to maritime speculations; many of these cases, under Macedon, would be settled in local courts instead of being brought to Athens, and the diminution of Athenian commerce would still further reduce their number.

[493] Arist., Rhet., 1. i., ad init.

[494] Diog. Laert., v. 75.

[495] Ibid., v. 80-81.

[496] Cicero, Brutus, § 37; Orator, § 92; de Oratore, ii. § 95; Quint., x. 1, 80; Diog. L., v. 82.

[497] Cicero, Brutus, § 286.

[498] He was over-fond of the ditrochaeus (–⏑–⏑) at the end of the sentence, vide Cicero, Brutus, § 286; Orator, §§ 226, 230; Dion., de Comp. Verb., ch. xviii.

INDEX

• Achilles, [2].
• Administration, speech of Lycurgus on his, [274].
• Aegina, [8].
• Aegineticus, the, of Isocrates, [158].
• Aeschines, [163-198]; [35], [70], [71], [200], [201], [203], [220], [224], [229], [231], [247], [249], [255], [263], [265], [267], [307].
• Aeschines the Socratic, [90], [112].
• Aeschylus, [23].
• Agamemnon, [157].
• Agathon, [15], [21].
• Agesilaus, [145], [147].
• Agoratus, speech of Lysias against, [99].
• Alcibiades, [7], [10], [54], [158];
• speech of Lysias against, [100].
• Alcidamas, [160-162].
• Alexander the Great, [4], [130], [158], [176-7], [221-2], [225], [228], [268], [271].
• Alexandria, [308], [309].
• Allegory, [2].
• Amphictyonic Council, the, [169], [220], [251], [286].
• Amphissa, [169], [220].
• Anaxagoras, [6], [34], [308].
• Andocides, [53-73]; [81], [88], [192].
• Andocides, speech of Lysias against, [101].
• Androtion, speech of Demosthenes against, [205], [254], [261].
• Antalcidas, [152].
• Antidosis, speech of Isocrates on the, [14], [127], [137 sqq.]
• Antioch, [308].
• Antipater, [158], [228], [229], [269], [270], [287], [310].
• Antiphon, [19-49]; [3], [7], [12], [16], [17], [51], [59], [66], [105], [112], [199], [200], [280].
• Antiphon the poet, [14].
• Antiphon the Sophist, [49].
• Antithesis, [16], [17], [27], [52], [58], [60], [66], [70], [93], [115], [133], [183], [240], [278], [280].
• Apaturius, speech of Demosthenes against, [260].
• Aphobus, speech of Demosthenes against, [103], [256].
• Apollodorus, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [104], [115], [123].
• Archaism, [16].
• Archebiades, speech of Lysias against, [102].
• Archeptolemus, [20], [93].
• Archidamus, [145], [158].
• Archidamus, the, of Isocrates, [155], [160].
• Areopagiticus, the, of Isocrates, [131], [154-5], [157].
• Areopagus, the, [47], [155], [225], [282], [304].
• Argos, [147], [213].
• Aristarchus, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [104], [124].
• Aristides, [154].
• Aristocrates, speech of Demosthenes against, [205], [254], [262].
• Aristogiton, speech of Demosthenes against, [234], [265];
• of Lycurgus, [273];
• of Dinarchus, [303], [306].
• Aristophanes, [53], [136], [198], [232], [249].
• Aristophanes, speech of Lysias on the property of, [97].
• Aristophon of Azenia, [286].
• Aristotle, [8], [9], [11], [12], [13], [15], [21], [25], [32], [50], [133], [161], [162], [272].
• Artaxerxes, [92].
• Artemisia, [128], [266].
• Asia, [130].
• Aspasia, [102].
• Astyphilus, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [124].
• Athenaeus, [50].
• Athenogenes, speech of Hyperides against, [288], [295], [300-1].
• Athens, [4], [5], [10], [126], [141], [145], [147], [150-2], [154], [219], [267], [308-11].
• ‘Austere’ style, the, [27].
• Autolycus, speech of Lycurgus against, [273].
• Balance of Clauses (see also [Period]), [30].
• Blass, F., [17], [44], [83], [132], [174], [176], [192], [193], [218], [243-4], [273], [276].
• Boeotia, [9].
• Boeotus, speech of Demosthenes against, [258-9].
• Bosporus, [201].
• Bribery, [167].
• Busiris, the, of Isocrates, [134], [156].
• Butcher, Prof. S. H., [218], [227].
• Byzantium, [216], [219].
• Caecilius of Calacte, [44].
• Callias, speech of Lysias for, [99].
• Callicles, speech of Demosthenes against, [204], [257].
• Callimachus, speech of Isocrates against, [158].
• Callippus, speech of Demosthenes against, [258].
• Cassander, [302], [310].
• Cephisodorus, [162].
• Cersobleptes, [183].
• Chaeronea, [126], [129], [148], [149], [221], [274-5], [278].
• Charidemus, [262].
• Charisius, [313].
• Chersonese, the, [214], [240], [247], [266];
• speech of Demosthenes on the, [215-16], [256].
• Choreutes, speech of Antiphon on the, [33], [37], [44], [48].
• Cicero, [5], [11], [14], [174], [193], [230], [312].
• Cinesias, speech of Lysias against, [102].
• Circumlocution, [24].
• Ciron, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [108-112], [115], [123], [125].
• Cirrha, [169].
• Cleonymus, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [123].
• Colloquialisms, [23], [31], [78], [113], [232], [234], [289-90].
• Companions, speech of Lysias to his, [102].
• Conon, speech of Demosthenes against, [204], [237-8], [257].
• Corax, [12], [13].
• Corinthian War, the, [94].
• Corn-dealers, speech of Lysias against the, [96-7].
• Cripple, speech of Lysias for the, [83], [86-7], [89], [95], [98].
• Critias, [10].
• Croiset, M., [192], [243], [244], [266], [299].
• Crown, speech of Demosthenes on the, [165], [170], [220], [222-4], [248], [254], [263-5], [311].
• Ctesiphon, [166], [179], [183], [185], [187-9], [191], [196-8], [221], [222-4], [253].
• Cunaxa, [147].
• Cyrus, [147].
• Damon, [6].
• Death, the praise of, by Alcidamas, [160].
• Deceleia, [20].
• Declamations, [44].
• Demades, [269-270]; [200], [222], [228-9];
• speech of Lycurgus against, [273], [274], [286], [294].
• Demetrius Magnes, [303].
• Demetrius of Phalerum, [232], [290], [310], [312-13].
• Demetrius Poliorcetes, [310], [313].
• Demochares, [313].
• Democracy, speech of Lysias on a charge of subversion of the, [98].
• Demonicus, letter of Isocrates to, [155-6].
• Demosthenes, [199-267]; [2], [3], [16], [29], [32], [35], [68], [78], [80], [81], [103], [104], [130], [133], [144], [154], [163-198 passim], [270], [271], [278], [286], [287], [289], [294], [296], [303], [304], [306].
• Dicaeogenes, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [104], [107], [124].
• Dinarchus, [302-307]; [200], [226], [236], [311].
• Dioclides, [56], [63].
• Diogenes Laertius, [312].
• Diogiton, speech of Lysias against, [100].
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, [23], [50], [57], [70], [74], [81], [90], [94], [103], [104], [114], [116], [118], [120], [122], [131], [161], [162], [236], [238-40], [250], [270], [288], [289], [302], [303], [313].
• Dionysius I. of Syracuse, [91], [92], [130], [145], [158].
• Dionysodorus, speech of Demosthenes against, [204], [261].
• Diopeithes, [214-15], [246], [286].
• Education, Isocrates’ views on, [127], [128], [135-44], [172], [187].
• Eleusis, mysteries of, [53-5].
• Embassy, speech of Aeschines on the, [166], [167], [179], [182], [191], [194-6];
• speech of Demosthenes on the, [166], [168], [170], [251], [253], [263-4].
• Encomia, [15], [16], [156-7].
• Epicrates, speech of Lysias against, [96].
• Epideictic style, [15-16], [93], [135], [200], [234], [243], [276-7], [292].
• Epitaphios, the, of Demosthenes, [267];
• of Gorgias, [15], [17];
• of Hyperides, [292], [299];
• of Lycurgus, [288];
• of Lysias, [5], [17], [89], [92-3].
• Eraton, speech of Lysias on the property of, [100-1].
• Eratosthenes, speech of Lysias against, [77], [79], [98].
• Eratosthenes, speech of Lysias on the murder of, [87], [95], [99].
• Eratosthenes (criticism of Demosthenes), [232].
• Ergocles, speech of Lysias against, [95], [96].
• Eroticus, the, of Demosthenes, [267];
• of Lysias, [101-2].
• Ethos, [37], [67], [84-8], [114], [122], [295].
• Eubulides, speech of Demosthenes against, [258].
• Eubulus, [196], [211], [263].
• Euclides of Megara, [138].
• Eucrates, [95].
• Euergus and Mnesibulus, speech of Demosthenes against, [259].
• Eumathes, speech of Isaeus for, [118-19], [125].
• Euphiletus, speech of Isaeus for, [120], [124].
• Euphony, [132].
• Eupolis, [7].
• Euripides, [198].
• Eurybiadas, [5].
• Euthynus, speech of Isocrates against, [158].
• Euxenippus, speech against, of Hyperides, [288], [293-5];
• of Lycurgus, [273].
• Evagoras, the, of Isocrates, [135], [157].
• Evandrus, speech of Lysias against, [97], [98].
• Falsa Legatione, de, see [Embassy].
• Figures of thought (see also [Rhetorical devices]), [31], [58], [89], [183], [294].
• ‘Florid’ style, the, [131].
• Four Hundred, the, [19-20], [57].
• Gelon, [9].
• Glottai (rare words), [15], [51].
• Gorgias, [12-18]; [19], [21], [22], [30], [51], [52], [91], [93], [127], [135], [160], [240], [243], [278], [308].
• Hagnias, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [107], [124].
• Halonnesus, speech of Demosthenes on, [266].
• Harpalus, [225-7], [287], [302].
• Harpocration, [102].
• Hegesias, [313].
• Hegesippus, [266].
• Helenae encomium of Gorgias, [51], [157];
• of Isocrates, [134], [138], [156-7].
• Hellenism, [4], [130], [290].
• Hermae, the, [34], [53-4].
• Hermogenes, [13], [58], [289].
• Herodes, speech of Antiphon on the murder of, [27], [33-4], [36], [37-43], [44], [46], [60].
• Herodes Atticus, [58].
• Herodotus, [4], [5], [9], [21], [26], [27], [135].
• Hesiod, [173], [184], [186].
• Hiatus, [29], [30], [131-2], [183], [241], [267], [277], [304].
• Hippias, [11].
• Hippocrates, speech of Lysias against the sons of, [102].
• Hogarth, D. G., [221].
• Homer, [1], [2], [10], [65], [105], [137], [152], [230], [279].
• Hyperbolus, [72-3].
• Hyperides, [285-301]; [167], [192], [200], [213], [214], [226-8], [230], [273], [304].
• Inheritance, [105-7].
• Ionian philosophers, [9], [142].
• Isaeus, [102-125]; [81], [171], [192], [202], [244], [270], [303].
• Ischyrias, speech of Lysias against, [274].
• Isocrates, [125-159]; [4], [14], [16], [51], [81], [91], [100], [104], [112], [113], [114], [160], [162], [177], [199], [200], [204], [212], [231], [234], [238-9], [241], [276], [279], [285], [303].
• Jason, letter of Isocrates to the children of, [127], [158].
• Jebb, Sir R. C., [34], [101], [102], [128].
• Lacedaemon, [92], [145], [147], [150-2], [154], [215].
• Lacritus, speech of Demosthenes against, [204], [260].
• Lamian War, the, [228], [287], [299].
• Leochares, speech of Demosthenes against, [260].
• Leocrates, speech of Lycurgus against, [273], [274-6], [280], [283-5].
• Leodamas, [229].
• Leosthenes, [287], [299-300].
• Leptines, speech of Demosthenes against, [206-7], [253-4], [261].
• Libanius, [271].
• Lochites, speech of Isocrates against, [158].
• Locrians, the, [248].
• Logographi, [34], [84], [92], [200], [202], [286], [295], [302].
• Longinus, [192].
• Lucian, [229], [230], [246].
• Lycophron, [162];
• speech of Hyperides for, [298];
• of Lycurgus against, [273], [288], [298].
• Lycurgus, [271-285].
• Lysander, [126].
• Lysias, [73-102]; [2], [51], [61], [112], [113], [114], [117], [120], [133], [135], [192], [236], [253], [289], [303], [308], [313].
• Lysicles, speech of Lycurgus against, [274], [285].
• Macartatus, speech of Demosthenes against, [260].
• Macedonia, [128], [129], [311].
• πρὸς τὰς Μαντείας, speech of Lycurgus, [274].
• Mantitheus, speech of Lysias for, [83-5], [98].
• Mausolus, [128].
• Megalopolis, [165], [168];
• speech of Demosthenes for the people of, [206], [255], [266].
• Menecles, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [124].
• Menesaechmus, speech of Lycurgus against, [274].
• Menexenus, the, of Plato, [94], [102].
• Messenian Oration, the, of Alcidamas, [160-1].
• Metaphor, [31], [184], [234-5], [290-1], [304].
• Midias, [190], [220];
• speech of Demosthenes against, [253], [262-3].
• Mitylene, letter of Isocrates to the rulers of, [158].
• Mnesiphilus, [5].
• Mommsen, [193].
• Mysteries, speech of Andocides on the, [55], [57], [62-5], [69], [71].
• Nais, the Praise of, by Alcidamas, [160].
• Nausimachus, speech of Demosthenes against, [258].
• Neaera, speech of Demosthenes against, [265].
• Nestor, [1].
• Nicias, speech of Lysias on the property of the brother of, [97].
• Nicocles, or The Cyprians, by Isocrates, [140], [156].
• Nicomachus, speech of Lysias against, [90], [96].
• Nicostratus, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [116], [123].
• Nicostratus, speech of Demosthenes against, [259].
• Odysseus, [2], [6].
• Odyssey, the, [161].
• Olympia, [91], [144], [311].
• Olympiacus, the, of Gorgias, [15];
• of Lysias, [77], [91].
• Olympiodorus, speech of Demosthenes against, [260].
• Olynthiacs, the, of Demosthenes, [206], [210], [223], [233], [245], [246], [255].
• Olynthus, [210-211], [217], [245], [286], [295].
• Onetor, speech of Demosthenes against, [256].
• Orphism, [164].
• Palamedes, the defence of, by Gorgias, [16], [51].
• Panathenaicus, the, of Isocrates, [126], [127], [129], [157].
• Pancleon, speech of Lysias against, [101].
• Panegyricus, the, of Isocrates, [91], [134], [140], [144], [146], [149-52], [276], [279].
• Pantaenetus, speech of Demosthenes against, [258].
• Papyri, [4], [113], [288].
• Paradox, [244-5].
• Paraleipsis, [32], [174].
• Parallelism, [17], [29].
• Parenthesis, [69].
• Parmenides, [9], [142].
• Pasion, [158].
• Pathos, [88], [123], [178].
• Pausanias, [227].
• Peace, on the, speech of Andocides, [57], [70];
• of Demosthenes, [212], [256];
• of Isocrates, [140], [153-4].
• Peloponnesian War, the, [126-7], [135], [201].
• Pergamus, [308].
• Pericles, [6], [7], [10], [34], [74], [93], [141], [154], [268], [309].
• Period, [16], [24-6], [82-4], [114], [133].
• Persia, [4], [92-3], [144], [147], [150-2], [221].
• Personalities, [35], [67-9], [122], [164], [170-1], [187-91], [233], [248], [305].
• Personification, [198], [234], [280-1].
• Persuasion, the goddess, [142].
• Phaedrus, the, of Plato, [7], [50], [127].
• Phaenippus, speech of Demosthenes against, [260].
• Phanos, speech of Demosthenes for, [256].
• Pherenicus, speech of Lysias for, [102].
• Philip of Macedon, [81], [126], [129], [130], [145-9], [158], [165], [167-9], [176-7], [189], [206-221], [251], [269], [286], [294-5].
• Philip’s letter, Demosthenes’ answer to, [267].
• Philippics, the, of Demosthenes, [207-10], [213], [216-18], [255-6], [266].
• Philippides, speech of Hyperides against, [288], [299].
• Philippus, the, of Isocrates, [126], [129], [146-9], [215], [279].
• Philocles, speech of Dinarchus against, [303-5].
• Philocrates, speech of Hyperides against, [214], [286];
• speech of Lysias against, [96].
• Philocrates, the peace of, [146], [168], [212].
• Philoctemon, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [124].
• Philon, speech of Lysias against, [98].
• Philostratus, [14].
• Phocion, [268-269]; [196], [200], [225], [229], [278], [287], [311].
• Phocis, [169], [212], [217], [220].
• Phœnix, [2].
• Phormio, speech of Demosthenes for, [257];
• do. against, [204], [260].
• Phryne, Hyperides’ defence of, [286], [289], [293].
• Phrynichus, [20].
• Pickard-Cambridge, A. W., [233], [251].
• Piraeus, [8], [150], [225], [272].
• Pisander, [19].
• Piso, [76-7].
• Plataicus, the, of Isocrates, [152-3].
• Plato, [3], [7], [10], [11], [14], [15], [20], [50], [51], [74-5], [101-2], [104], [127], [136], [204], [231], [238-9], [285], [309].
• Plato comicus, [4].
• Plutarch, [5], [6], [166], [201], [203], [226], [229], [232], [268].
• — Pseudo-, [44], [57], [59], [74-5], [90], [123], [127], [143], [272-3], [285], [298].
• Poetical quotations, [184], [187], [232], [275], [279], [281].
• Poetical words, [16], [17], [23], [51-2], [179].
• Poisoning, speech of Antiphon on a charge of, [29], [44], [48].
• Polemarchus, [99].
• Polycles, speech of Demosthenes against, [259].
• Polycrates, [162].
• Polysperchon, [310].
• Polystratus, speech of Lysias for, [95].
• Priestess and Priesthood, speeches of Lycurgus on the, [274].
• Probability, argument from, [36].
• Prodicus, [10], [20].
• Prooemia, of Demosthenes, [267];
• of Lysias, [82].
• Prose-style (see also [Period], [Style], etc.), [3], [14], [16], [21], [130], [201], [238-240].
• Protagoras, [7], [10], [11], [13], [14], [22], [127], [136], [308].
• Ptolemy Philadelphus, [272].
• Pyrrhus, speech of Isaeus on the estate of, [124].
• Pytheas, [202], [270].
• Pythian speech, the, of Gorgias, [15].
• Pythian Games, the, [212].
• Pythoclides, [6].
• Questions, rhetorical, [58], [71], [115-16], [293], [304].
• Quintilian, [58], [230], [312].
• de Reditu, speech of Andocides, [54-55], [70].
• Rhetoric and rhetoricians, [3], [9], [12], [32], [50], [59], [129-30], [133], [138], [161], [162], [181], [199], [312].
• Rhetorical devices, [33], [64], [69], [93], [183], [244-52], [304].
• Rhodians, speech of Demosthenes on the freedom of the, [255], [266].
• Rhyme, [18], [30-31].
• Rhythm, [16], [27-30], [52], [132-3], [184], [241-4].
• Rome, [314].
• Sacred Olive, speech of Lysias on the, [99-100].
• Sacred War, the, [166], [169].
• Sacrilege, [53].
• Salamis, [5].
• Samos, [8].
• Samothrace, [19].
• Sandys, Sir J. E., [218].
• Sextus Empiricus, [13], [14].
• Sicilian expedition, the, [53], [126].
• Sicily, [3], [9].
• Simile, [9], [290-1].
• Simon, speech of Lysias against, [99].
• Smooth style, the, [131].
• Social War, the, [153].
• Socrates, [127], [136-8], [300].
• Socrates, the Accusation of, by Polycrates, [162].
• Socratics, [138].
• Soldier, speech of Lysias for the, [97].
• Solon, [141], [173].
• Sophists, the, [3], [5], [7], [9], [10], [13], [14], [22], [135-44], [157], [160].
• Sophists, speech of Alcidamas on the, [160].
• Sophists, speech of Isocrates against the, [127], [128], [136-144].
• Spudias, speech of Demosthenes against, [256].
• Stephanus, speech of Demosthenes against, [257], [259].
• Structure of sentences, [30], [82], [133-4], [181-2], [292-3];
• of speeches, [35], [52], [81], [114], [117], [120-2], [191], [252-5].
• Style, types and characteristics of, [15-16], [21-7], [51], [58], [61], [78], [82], [113], [117], [119], [179-81], [185], [234], [238], [276], [292-3], [303-4].
• Sublime, treatise on the, [229], [297].
• περὶ συντάξεως, speech of Demosthenes, [267].
• Symmories, speech of Demosthenes on the, [206], [244-5], [255], [265].
• Syracuse, [11].
• Tarsus, [308].
• Tetralogies, the, of Antiphon, [19-43], [44-9], [60].
• Thebes, [126], [141], [145], [147], [152], [186], [215], [221], [227], [271].
• Themistocles, [5], [6], [141], [154], [198].
• Theocrines, speech of Demosthenes against, [265].
• Theodorus of Byzantium, [50], [52-3].
• Theomnestus, speech of Lysias against, [100].
• Theophrastus, [269], [302], [313].
• Theoric Fund, the, [211], [218], [219], [245-6].
• Theramenes, [20], [127].
• Thermopylae, [220].
• Thessaly, [14], [217], [220].
• Thirty, The, [76], [98], [127], [164], [174], [199], [271].
• Thrasymachus, [50-52]; [132], [308].
• Thucydides, [3], [5], [7], [8], [16], [18-20], [27-9], [51], [52], [55], [105], [114], [199], [203].
• Thurii, [74-5].
• Timarchus, speech of Aeschines against, [164-6], [168], [170], [173], [176], [193-4].
• Timocrates, speech of Demosthenes against, [205], [248], [251], [254], [261].
• Timotheus, son of Conon, [128].
• Timotheus, letter of Isocrates to, [158].
• Tisias, [12-14], [50], [75].
• Tisis, speech of Lysias against, [102].
• Torture of slaves, [47], [110-11], [112].
• Trapeziticus, the, of Isocrates, [158].
• Treaty with Alexander, speech of Demosthenes on the, [267].
• Trierarchic Crown, speech of Demosthenes on the, [256].
• Trierarchic law, [219].
• Verrall, A. W., [31].
• Vocabulary, [18], [22], [23], [61], [68], [81], [113], [134-5], [179], [289].
• Weil, H., [218], [251], [265], [306].
• Wounding with intent, speech of Lysias on, [99].
• Xenophon, [7].
• Xerxes, [6].
• Zeno, [7], [9].
• Zenothemis, speech of Demosthenes against, [204], [259].
• περὶ τοῦ ζεύγους, speech of Isocrates, [158].
• Ζεὺς Κτήσιος, [111].