It is not as if I were prescribing one line of conduct for you having followed another in my own public life. I myself never in my life prosecuted any private citizen, and there are some whom before now I have done my best to help. What men, then, have I prosecuted and brought to trial? Aristophon of Hazenia, Of the three orators here mentioned Aristophon was prosecuted by Hyperides in 362 B.C., Diopithes at an unknown date, and Philocrates in 343. See further, notes on Hyp. Fr. 17 , Hyp. Fr. 15 , and Hyp. Fr. 16 . now a most influential person in public life—he was acquitted in this court by two votes only;