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224 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
ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… other and both generals of [the] Syracusans, had long-standing grievances against the Romans. Since they lacked the power to provoke Syracuse to war, they fled to Leontinoi, which was at odds with the Syracusans, …Matched in translationhighmedium
α334ἈγωνιῶI am in a torment… attested is the participle] a)gwniw=n ["being in a torment"], [meaning someone] fearing. "Fearing the fickleness of the Celts and the plots against his life." "But he feared the soldiers, if the ration-money were to …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ682Καταξαίνειν εἰς φοινικίδαto card [someone] into purpleAristophanes [writes]: "'why do we townsmen spare the stones, not to card this man into purple?' 'How some black firebrand has boiled over on you!'" Meaning not to make him bloody with stones, as …Matched in headwordhighmedium
α3273ἈπογραφήdepositionWhenever someone says that someone is in possession of some item of city property, the defendant makes a deposition, showing how much he has of it and how he came by it. Perhaps also …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4599Ἀφεὶς καὶ Ἀπαλλάξαςhaving let go and having set free'Having let go' is when someone releases [someone] from the charges which he charged against him. But 'having set free' is when he persuades the person doing the charging to withdraw and cease bringing …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… man who is the same way, is easier to guard against than a quietly clever woman." The sense [is]: someone might more easily guard against the hot-tempered person than [against] someone hiding the anger …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1458Ἅμαas soon as, at the same time… who think rightly; for as soon as it comes to someone he has knowledge of everything". Aeschines [uses it] for "at the very time in which" in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon: "how he sold, …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ342Χλίδοςslime, sludgeDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Kallikles on Damage to a Plot [writes]: "and then throwing out the slime into the road, the result of which was that he made the road itself higher and …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4134ἈσδρούβαςHasdrubal… threw them headlong still breathing off the wall -- contriving against the Romans things which were unacceptable to the Carthaginians. And thus he incited them to make their safety depend upon battle alone, but …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3683Ἀπράγμωνbusiness-free… place] not following the account of what is choiceworthy but against nature. So [someone who is] 'business-free' [is] fair, moderate in his moods; for instance not combative or meddlesome. Alternatively [it means someone] slackened …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2813Ἄξιονproper; cheap… it is proper to be silent, when there is neither someone bullying, nor someone who is going to punish you". They assign [the word] axion also to purchases, whenever something is sold at a …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ472ΔημοχάρηςDemochares… and Philainis and the other writers of obscenities. Polybius says against Timaios: these scurrilous assertions and insinuations no educated man would put forward - and not even someone selling his body in a brothel. …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3139ἘσθήρEsther… in the dark at the king’s gate, heard about the plot against Artaxerxes and revealed it to Artaxerxes. And thus the conspiracy against the Jews was destroyed.Matched in translationhighmedium
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
κ215Καλλίας πτερορρυεῖKallias is moulting… of comedy for having lost all his money. For, as [someone] well-bred, he is being plucked by blackmail/sykophancy. The females are plucking out his feathers. For he became a poor man when he had …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
α3566Ἀποστυγοῦντεςabhorring, loathing… having abhorred [...]". "Fabricius was appointed commander for the war against Pyrrhus. For when the armies were facing each other, a certain man who was on night watch approached Fabricius and offered to kill …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3940ἈριφράδηςAriphrades… things. And Polymnesteian [poems], too, were mocked for shamefulness. "If someone does not really guard himself against such a man, he will never drink out of the same cup with us." And again: "Ariphrades, …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ191Χελώνη μυιῶνa tortoise [uncaring] of flies… proverbial phrase] in reference to those who think little of someone/something. Also [sc. attested is] 'to a tortoise'. "You think your frankness is 'worth four obols', as the saying goes. You do not know …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1183Διονυσίων σκώμματαinsults of the Dionysia… insults from the Dionysia [...]." The Dionysia was a festival. "[Someone] who looking and gazing with shifty eyes hides one thing in his mind and speaks another"; "whose mouth overflowed with curses and bitterness …Matched in translationhighmedium
α449ἌδερHadad, Ader, AderosThe offender, who rebelled against Solomon. He was a child, of the Edomite race, of royal descent. When Joab, David's general, had subdued Edom and in six months had killed all those who were …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
μ56ΜακάριοςMakarios, Macarius… deemed worthy of knowledge (it has 50 chapters); the Antirrhetic against the demons of temptation [is] divided into 8 parts, in accordance with the number of the 8 arguments; and 600 Prognostic Problems; and …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2732Κύντιος Κικιννάτος δικτάτωρQuinctius Cincinnatus the dictator… 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
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
μ618ΜένωνMenon, Meno… associates as if laughing at them. He did not scheme against the property of his enemies, for in his opinion it was difficult to take what belonged to men who were on their guard; …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
λ825ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… rescued them. The authentic speeches of Lykourgos, as preserved, are: Against Aristogeiton, Against Autolykos, Against Leokrates, Against Lykophron - two, Against Pasikles, Against Menaichmos, Against Demades, Defence of himself, In support of the accounts, …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι448ἸουστῖνοςIoustinos, Justinus, Justin… sons and the Senate of the Romans a book composed Against the Pagans, without being ashamed at the ignominy of the cross. He also wrote a second book, which he gave to the successors …Matched in translationhighmedium