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79 entries for a plot [against someone]

β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… law], attached to two sets of circumstances. One is when someone plots to bring about the death of somebody, irrespective of whether the target of the plot dies or not ; the other is …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2643Ἀντεχειροτόνησενvoted against… "If he had added those things, no-one would have voted against it."Matched in translationhighshort
κ955Κατεξαναστάντες τοῦ μέλλοντοςon their guard against the future… making plans with foresight. "For this reason, on their guard against the future, they besought the presidents to send envoys out to Rhodes, to assist in obtaining freedom."Matched in translationhighshort
ε1169Ἔνδειξιςendeixis, exposureA lawsuit brought against those who were in debt and [sc. nevertheless] making public speeches. For someone in debt was not permitted to speak, or even to have complete citizen rights. Consequently, if a …Matched in translationhighshort
α2661Ἀντιγραφεύςantigrapheus, copy-clerk… city, who therefore "copies" them. So Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Androtion, but also Aeschines in the Against Ktesiphon. There were two: one of the financial administration, the other of the council. In a …Matched in translationhighmedium
α344Ἀγραφίου δίκηdike agraphiou, lawsuit about erasure… pays, the record is erased from the notice-board. So if someone is listed as owing money, but does not appear to have paid, and his name has been erased from the notice-board, any citizen …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… And in everyday usage [a chairman] was the word for someone set in charge of something or other.Matched in translationhighshort
ε2701Ἐπίτιμονworthy, enfranchised[Meaning] rich; or someone not unworthy [or: not disenfranchised]. Lucian [writes]: "the council, being bowled over by him, dismisses the conviction against Menecrates, and now he is enfranchised." "They voted the slaves free and …Matched in translationhighshort
δ461Δημοσίων πραγμάτων διοικητήςadministrator of public affairs… anybody was the object of injustice and brought a lawsuit against someone. And you are hateful, because those interfering in other people’s matters are hated.Matched in translationhighshort
λ846Λυπράwretched… to live in a wretched little hut on a small plot of land and to content himself with the farmer's life. When he was called upon to be dictator, he happened to be working …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει222Εἰσαγγελίαimpeachment, eisangelia… are three kinds of impeachments. One is for major crimes against the people which allow no deferral and for which there is neither a [sc. competent] magistracy established nor laws laying down the officials …Matched in translationhighmedium
γ48Γαμηλίαwedding-feast… [there is] a saying. To bring in a wedding-feast: whenever someone married a wife [and] before a child was produced, this man testified about the marriage in accordance with the marriages by providing something …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ451Δημοποίητοςnaturalized citizen… For Perikles, the son of Xanthippos, proposed a law that someone whose parents were not both citizens would not himself be a citizen. A short time later, Perikles lost his legitimate [sons]. Against his …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ455ΔημοσθένηςDemosthenes… alone among Athenians of his own time spoke out freely against the Macedonian tyrants; they saw him as someone impossible to bribe, at a time when it so happened that those in the other …Matched in translationhighmedium
η39Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… to the laws. To the War-Archon they brought any suits against a freedman for having forsaken his patron. Beyond this, all that the Archon attended to among the citizens, the Polemarch attended to among …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2494ἘπίνικοςEpinikos, Epinicus… the wife of Leo I, he organized with her a plot against Emperor Zeno in 415 AD. After the latter fled from Rome, Basiliscus (DIR entry by Hugh Elton at web address 2) was …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2736Ἐπιτυχοῦσινto just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed… 1234, eta 286 and refs.). It may be used of someone accurately hitting a target (with a bit of luck), all the way to the sort of person you happen to run into on …Matched in noteshighshort
α1371Ἁλῶconvicted… This verb is used] with a genitive of possession; "if someone is arrested after being convicted of maltreatment of his parents." And "if someone is convicted of making an illegal proposal or of theft."Matched in translationhighshort
κ864Καταχειροτονίανcommittal-voteIt was a custom at Athens for complaints against the officials and against the malicious prosecutors to come before the people; and if anyone had been the subject of a committal-vote, this man was …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1778ΚλήμηςKlemes, Clemens, ClementAn historian; he wrote [on] Roman emperors and rulers; and Against Hieronymos on the Isokratean figures; and other things.Matched in translationhighshort
ε1170Ἔνδειξιςendeixis, exposure… who wanted could 'expose' him. Likewise [this could happen to] someone laying claim to acts or places forbidden by law, such as he who, after prostituting himself in the agora, was addressing the popular …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1197Ἕναιold[Meaning] officials whose term is over. Demosthenes [in the speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. uses the term].Matched in translationhighshort
μ1013ΜητρῷονMetroon, MetroumLycurgus in the [speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. mentions it]. They used to put the laws for inscription in the Metroon.Matched in translationhighshort
α3656Ἀποψηφίζονταιthey are voting offDinarchus in the [speech] Against Archestratos [says this] to mean they are condemning him not to be a citizen [sc. any longer]. And Demosthenes calls the process voting-off (a)poyh/fisis).Matched in translationhighshort
α343Ἀγραφίουde-listingA form of lawsuit against those in debt to the public treasury and written up for this, but erased before they paid it. So Demosthenes and Dinarchus and Lycurgus.Matched in translationhighshort
ν86Ναυτοδίκαιnautodikai… particular magistracy in Athens. At any rate Krateros says: "if someone born from two foreign parents attempts to belong to a phratria, it is necessary for any Athenian who wants [sc. to do so] …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2909Ἀπαξιῶνdeeming unworthy[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he] believing [someone/something to be] unworthy. Appian [writes]: "the people did not elect Marcius to a share in the consulship, not deeming the man unworthy, but fearing his arrogance".Matched in translationhighshort
δ1329Δοκιμασίαν ἐπαγγεῖλαιto institute a dokimasia.[Meaning] the declaration against a person of a suit of [= for] debauchery. The dokimasia of debauchery does not apply to everyone, but to active politicians [politeuomenoi rhetores] and those who propose decrees.Matched in translationhighshort
ε722Ἐκφυλλοφορῆσαιto leaf out… [him] out and a leafing-out. So Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Neaira.Matched in translationhighmedium
γ439Γραφήpublic-suit, graphe… Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974). Strictly speaking, the grafh\ parano/mwn could only be brought against decrees; against allegedly improper laws the resort was the …Matched in noteshighshort