The quoted law and Demosthenes' commentary on it, especially in regard to the procedure of epicheirotonia, can be shown to be consistent with each other and with other evidence on Athenian law.
The "Repeal law" for dealing with conflicting laws is not contradicted by Demosthenes' summary of it or by other evidence, and the mss. stichometric count is not a consistent control on questions of ...authenticity.
The evidence of the orators shows that Athenians did not conceive of the people's court as a subdivision of the sovereign demos, and that in the fourth century they regarded the dikasterion rather ...than the demos as kyrion panton. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
A survey of the possible testimonia for large and continuing voting groups in Athens leaves only Demosthenes' complaint at 2.29/13.20 as possible, but this is outweighed by the general silence.
Reconsideration of a number of sources supports the view that the magistrates were compensated not by regular pay but by various unofficial emoluments, as was normal in pre-modern states.
Among the several meanings of eleutheria used by Greeks in the classical period, democratic freedom is rejected by both Plato and Aristotle, who do not articulate a theory of political freedom but ...rather confine eleutheria to a social context. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
