The fall of Olynthus ( 348 BC ) brought Aeschines into the political arena, and he was sent on an embassy to rouse the Peloponnese against Philip II of Macedon.

* Aeschines brings a suit against Ctesiphon for illegally proposing the award of a crown to the Athenian leader Demosthenes in recognition of his services to Athens.

In spring of 347 BC, Aeschines addressed the assembly of Ten Thousand in Megalopolis, Arcadia urging them to unite and defend their independence against Philip.

As part of Greek politician Aiskhines ( Aeschines )' proof that a member of the prosecution against him, Timarkhos ( Timarchus ), had prostituted himself to ( or been " kept " by ) another male while young, he attributed fellow prosecutor Demosthenes ' nickname Batalos (" arse ") to his " unmanliness and kinaidiā and frequently commented on his " unmanly and womanish temper ", even criticising his clothing: " If anyone took those dainty little coats and soft shirts off you ... and took them round for the jurors to handle, I think they'd be quite unable to say, if they hadn't been told in advance, whether they had hold of a man's clothing or a woman's.

Other declamations, only known from the excerpts in Photius, were imaginary orations put into the mouth of famous persons -- Demosthenes advocating the recall of Aeschines from banishment, Hypereides supporting the policy of Demosthenes, Themistocles inveighing against the king of Persia, an orator unnamed attacking Epicurus for atheism before Julian at Constantinople.

Yet another example of hubris appears in Aeschines " Against Timarchus ," where the defendant, Timarchus, is accused of breaking the law of hubris by submitting himself to prostitution and anal intercourse.

* The Athenian politicians, Demosthenes and Timarchus, prepare to prosecute Aeschines for treason after he has sought to reconcile the Athenians to Macedonia's expansion into Greece.

However, Aeschines drags up the inappropriate past of one of Demosthenes ' associates, Timarchus and is acquitted by a narrow margin.

Aeschines counterattacked by claiming that Timarchus had forfeited the right to speak before the people as a consequence of youthful debauches which had left him with the reputation of being a whore and prostituting himself to many men in the port city of Piraeus.

As a consequence of his successful attack on Timarchus, Aeschines was cleared of the charge of treason.

He was certainly alive after 345 BC, for Aeschines mentions him as alive in that year.

Demosthenes also had a daughter, " the only one who ever called him father ", according to Aeschines ' in a trenchant remark.

In his speeches, Aeschines uses pederastic relations of Demosthenes as a means to attack him.

Aeschines claims that Demosthenes made money out of young rich men, such as Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, whom he allegedly deceived with the pretence that he could make him a great orator.

Aeschines taunted him and referred to him in his speeches by the nickname " Batalus ", apparently invented by Demosthenes ' pedagogues or by the little boys with whom he was playing.

In 336 BC, when Ctesiphon proposed that his friend Demosthenes should be rewarded with a golden crown for his distinguished services to the state, Aeschines accused him of having violated the law in bringing forward the motion.

In the case of Aristion, a youth from Plataea who lived for a long time in Demosthenes ' house, Aeschines mocks the " scandalous " and " improper " relation.

In particular, the orator Aeschines cites laws excluding slaves from wrestling halls and forbidding them to enter pederastic relationships with the sons of citizens.

* Aeschines continues to try to prevent Demosthenes from being awarded a golden crown for his services to Athens.

Aeschines, Demosthenes ' greatest political rival, maintained that his mother Kleoboule was a Scythian by blood — an allegation disputed by some modern scholars.

The case, which has begun in 336 BC, finally concludes with the overwhelming defeat of Aeschines, largely because of Demosthenes ' brilliant speech for Ctesiphon ( On the Crown ).

Demosthenes now dominates Athenian politics and is able to considerably weaken the pro-Macedonian faction led by Aeschines.

* An Athenian delegation, comprising Demosthenes, Aeschines and Philocrates, is officially sent to Pella to negotiate a peace treaty with Philip II.

During the negotiations, Aeschines seeks to reconcile the Athenians to Macedonia's expansion into Greece.

In another speech, Aeschines brings up the pederastic relation of his opponent with a boy called Cnosion.

Aeschines accused Demosthenes of complicity in the murder, pointing out that Nicodemus had once pressed a lawsuit accusing Demosthenes of desertion.

His crime, according to Aeschines, was to have betrayed his eromenos by pillaging his estate, allegedly pretending to be in love with the youth so as to get his hands on the boy's inheritance.

Eudoxus's father Aeschines of Cnidus loved to watch stars at night.

In his Lives of the Sophists, Philostratus traced the beginnings of the movement to the orator Aeschines in the 4th century B. C.

Fourth century orators, such as Aeschines, tended to attribute to Solon all the laws of their own, much later times.

* The Athenian statesman Demosthenes has Aeschines indicted for treason.

The Amphictyonic Congress, with the initial support of the Athenian representative, Aeschines, decides to inflict a harsh punishment upon the Locrians.

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In 1974, when a shorter version of the story appeared, a suit was brought on behalf of Mayling, and Cowles testified ( perhaps to protect Wilkie ) that the affair was “ impossible .” Taylor speculates that Willkie, who had several drinks when he talked to Cowles, had exaggerated or misled his young friend who had imagined the rest.

In a suit brought in 2005 by Spitzer, the California firm Intermix Media, Inc. ended up settling, by agreeing to pay US $ 7. 5 million and to stop distributing spyware.

In spite of Morheim's involvement, Sturges " insisted on sole producer credit "; both Morheim and Quinn brought suit over the events, with Morheim settling for an associate producer credit and Quinn denied the $ 630, 000 in damages he sought.

In Muskrat v. United States,, the Supreme Court denied jurisdiction to cases brought under a statute permitting certain Native Americans to bring suit against the United States to determine the constitutionality of a law allocating tribal lands.

One of them brought suit in federal court, arguing that Rhode Island's government was not " republican " in character, and that his arrest ( along with all of the government's other acts ) were invalid.

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As a result of a civil suit brought by the infant's family, Waterman's was ordered to pay pay the parents $ 325, 000, with a pending legal claim that the mortuary violated the state's consumer protection law that could triple the damages, the Boston Globe reported.

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One subject of Army drug experimentation, James Stanley, an Army sergeant, brought an important, albeit unsuccessful, suit.

On August 26, 2010, Mercis BV, representing Bruna, brought suit against Sanrio with the claim that one of Hello Kitty's companion characters, a rabbit named Cathy, infringes on the copyright and trademark of Miffy.

Six officials, among them Efraín Ríos Montt and Óscar Humberto Mejía, were formally charged on 7 July 2006 to appear in the Spanish National Court after Spain's Constitutional Court ruled in September 2005, the Spanish Constitutional Court declaration that the " principle of universal jurisdiction prevails over the existence of national interests ", following the Menchu suit brought against the officials for atrocities committed in the Guatemalan Civil War

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