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grbs-16175	Plastow, Christine	Doctors in Attic Forensic Oratory	2019	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8143	276	58	Many doctors are presented as trust- worthy and competent, particularly those who appear in figura- tive passages, where doctors become emblematic of protection against danger to the body and thus an easy analogy for the democratic forms of protection against danger to the city and the people that litigants regularly draw attention to. Plastow ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 59 (2019) 575–595 2019 Christine Plastow Doctors in Attic Forensic Oratory Christine Plastow N DEMOSTHENES 54 Against Conon, the speaker Ariston con- trasts his opponents’ witnesses, whom he characterises as co- conspirators prepared to tell a variety of lies on his enemies’ behalf, with his own witnesses, who are doctors (35–36): καὶ ταῦτα τὰ λαµπρὰ καὶ νεανικά ἐστιν αὐτῶν “οὐ γὰρ ἡµεῖς µαρτυρήσοµεν ἀλλήλοις; οὐ γὰρ ταῦθ᾽ ἑταίρων ἐστὶ καὶ φίλων; τί δὲ καὶ δεινόν ἐστιν ὧν παρέξεται κατὰ σοῦ; τυπτόµενόν φασί τινες ὁρᾶν; ἡµεῖς δὲ µηδ᾽ ἧφθαι τὸ παράπαν µαρτυρήσοµεν.	cache/grbs-16175.pdf	txt/grbs-16175.txt