Ὕβρις
hybris, assault, outrage
Translated by David Whitehead13 Nov 2001Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the [sc. sort of attack that comes] with contumely and abuse, whereas battery [ai)ki/a ] [sc. is a matter of] blows only. Lysias in the [speech] On Battery in reply to Isokrates [writes]: "and yet which of you [jurors] is unaware that for aikia the penalty is only monetary, while you are allowed to punish with death those deemed to have committed hybris."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὕβρις· ἡ μετὰ προπηλακισμοῦ καὶ ἐπηρείας, αἰκία δὲ πληγαὶ μόνον. Λυσίας ἐν τῷ Περὶ αἰκίας πρὸς Ἰσοκράτην· καίτοι τίς οὐκ οἶδεν ὑμῶν, ὅτι τὴν μὲν αἰκίαν χρημάτων ἔστι μόνον τιμῆσαι, τοὺς δὲ ὑβρίζειν δόξαντας ἔξεστιν ὑμῖν θανάτῳ ζημιοῦν.
Betacode
*(/ubris: h( meta\ prophlakismou= kai\ e)phrei/as, ai)ki/a de\ plhgai\ mo/non. *lusi/as e)n tw=| *peri\ ai)ki/as pro\s *)isokra/thn: kai/toi ti/s ou)k oi)=den u(mw=n, o(/ti th\n me\n ai)ki/an xrhma/twn e)/sti mo/non timh=sai, tou\s de\ u(bri/zein do/cantas e)/cestin u(mi=n qana/tw| zhmiou=n.
Notes (1)
- Likewise in Photius (upsilon11 Theodoridis) and elsewhere.
For hybris cf. generally upsilon 11, upsilon 12, upsilon 13, upsilon 14, upsilon 15, upsilon 17 upsilon 18, upsilon 19, upsilon 20, upsilon 21. The present entry addresses it as a specific offence under Athenian law. - 1Lysias fr. 126 Sauppe (now 178 Carey OCT). ↩
References
S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 270-1
Linked from4 entries
- π2562Προπηλακίζωνbesmirching[Meaning he who is] wronging, outraging, disparaging, despising. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] prophlakismo/s, [meaning] outrage. The term comes from smearing clay onto the faces of those being condemned by…
- υ11Ὑβρίζεινto do violence, to act insolentlyIn reference to behaving shamefully. "[He] supposed that they, wicked as they were, [sc. were disposed] to do violence and to be idle." "But he did not live at random, as least as far as I can judge, nor indeed like the…
- υ14Ὕβριςviolence, insolence[Sc. a condition of] being somewhat heavy; or from raining [u(/ein] heav[il]y [ba/ros].
- υ20Ὕβριστιςwanton[Meaning] insolence/violence, and disgrace.
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