Two orations on the crown Author:Aeschines Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: not above the law; for thus are our democratic institutions upheld." Such, then, is my answer to the frivolous pretexts which my adversaries have hitherto opp... more »osed to me. I shall now attempt to prove to you from the public records that when Ctesiphon proposed his decree, Demosthenes was really accountable, as he was at that time Administrator of the Thcoric Fund and also Superintendent of Eepairs of Walls, and had not yet rendered any account of his management of these employments. Let the Clerk now read in whose archonship, and in what month and on what day, and in what Assembly, Demosthenes was elected to administer the Theoric Fund. ENUMERATION OF DATES. If therefore I go no further than I have done, Ctesiphon will stand justly convicted, for he. is condemned not by my charge, but by the public records. In days of yore, Athenians, there was a controller chosen by the people who in each presidency accounted to it for the public revenues. By reason of the confidence which had been reposed in Eubulus, the men who (before the law of Hegemon) were chosen to administer the Theoric Fund exercised at the same time the offices of controller, of receiver- general, of superintendent of marine, and of inspector of arsenals. They were also intrusted with the repair of the highways, and controlled in effect almost theentire municipal government. I am neither accusing nor blaming any one for this: I simply desire to show you that the law-maker forbade even the least of these functionaries to be crowned before he had rendered correct accounts of his administration.— Ctesiphon, however, has not hesitated to propose a decree for the crowning of Demosthenes, who in his single person united all the administrative faculties of Athens. To prove that when Ctesiphon brought in his decree...« less