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360 entries for a plot [against someone]

α2758ἈντωμοσίαaffidavitMeaning an] indictment under oath against someone, concerning [his] alleged wrongdoings. But a diomosia [is] the oath made by both sides who are pleading the case, by one to accuse the one who did …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
χ317Χιώνsnow… toes rot off. It was a defence for the eyes against the cold if someone walked holding something black in front of his eyes, and for the feet if someone kept moving and was …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3597Ἀποτιμηταὶapotimetai, guarantors… husband[-to-be] a security for the dowry - a house or plot of land of equal value. [In such circumstances] the giver of the guarantee was said "to guarantee" it, in the active sense, while …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2940ἈπατούριαApatouria, Apaturia… This is the reason: the Athenians had a war on against the Boiotians over Kelainai, which was a place in their borderlands. Xanthios, a Boiotian, challenged the Athenian king, Thymoites [to a fight]. When …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
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
α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… up exposed babies and raising them; and in short, whatever someone might take up. "For, having overturned the law, it elected her"; Demosthenes says this in the [speech] Against Androtion; but the quotation is …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ181Δεκατεύεινto pay a tithe… that, if they should conquer [the Persians], they would campaign [against the collaborators] and impose a tithe to the Pythian on all." "When I was invited to the tenth-day ceremony of the child I …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
α3242Ἄπνουςnot breathing… Pausanias about the Non-Breather. [He said that] the Non-Breather was someone who for 30 days kept his body without breath and without food. This man [Empedocles] was also a magician. And he says about …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
γ21ΓαλάταιGauls, Galatai, Galatians… numbering 300,000. From there they split into groups; some turned against the part of Greece that lay south of the Gates, and others, numbering somewhere around twenty thousand, against Thrace and Asia. And after …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
κ2776ΚῦροςKuros, Kyros, Cyrus… in the East in Jerusalem, Cyrus fell victim to a plot and became the Bishop of Cotyaeum in Phrygia and he lived on until the reign of Emperor Leo. This man established the Church …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
α4309ἈταλάντηAtalante, Atalanta… wishing to sleep with her. Having laid an ambush, he plotted against Peleus -- who, perceiving this, waged war against him, having invited as allies both the Tyndaridai and Jason (who was an enemy …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3350Ἀποκήρυκτονdisenfranchised, disinherited, renounced[Meaning someone or something] alien. "One simply saying that the disenfranchised are worthless might seem to be saying that they are such of necessity; this indeed is not the case. For it is possible …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ432ΜεθόδιοςMethodios, Methodius… of Tyre. He assembled volumes of splendid and well-composed discourse against Porphyry; also a Symposium of twelve virgins, and an excellent discourse On the Resurrection against Origen, and another against the same On the …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… it not?" Since he omitted the third option, the forces against release and those in favor of postponement joined in defeating what would have been the majority for release (Polybius 33.1.5). During his praetorship, …Matched in noteshighmedium