... in the same speech. The analyses offer insights into the procedure of probole for offences against the festival of the Dionysia, into the law on outrage (hybris), into the Athenian procedures of public and private arbitration and into Athenian legislation on bribery...

.... Against Medea uses the procedure of probole to accuse Meidias of committing an offence concerning a festival by hitting Demosthenes at the Dionysia. The speech includes a long account of the hostility between them and of the seriousness of the offence. Meidias is attacked as one...