Note * — Chapter XV · An Athenian Court Trial.

These “friends,” however, were never regularly professional advocates; it would have been ruinous to let the jury get the impression that an orator was being directly hired to speak to them.

[+] For the depths of personal insult into which Greek litigants could descend there is no better instance than Demosthenes’s (otherwise magnificent) Oration on the Crown, wherein he castigates his foe Æschines.