A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... Athenian law , a witness could properly only give evi- dence of what he had seen himself , not of what he had heard from others ; but when an individual had heard anything relating to the matter in dispute from a per- son who was dead ...
... Athenian law , a witness could properly only give evi- dence of what he had seen himself , not of what he had heard from others ; but when an individual had heard anything relating to the matter in dispute from a per- son who was dead ...
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... Athenian citizen , such as a foreigner , a slave , & c . , wished to accusé a person of any offence against the people , he was obliged to obtain first permission to do so , which permission was called adeta . An Athenian citizen who ...
... Athenian citizen , such as a foreigner , a slave , & c . , wished to accusé a person of any offence against the people , he was obliged to obtain first permission to do so , which permission was called adeta . An Athenian citizen who ...
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... Athenian citizen were en- titled to his property if he made no disposition of it by will , or made no valid adoption during his life- time ; they were , therefore , interested in preventing fraudulent adoptions . The whole community ...
... Athenian citizen were en- titled to his property if he made no disposition of it by will , or made no valid adoption during his life- time ; they were , therefore , interested in preventing fraudulent adoptions . The whole community ...
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... Athenians , if a man caught another fee was then called honorarium . ( Vid . Orator , man in the act of criminal ... Athenian state , who , on account of infirmity sing and draining of the city , belonged to the ædiles ; or bodily ...
... Athenians , if a man caught another fee was then called honorarium . ( Vid . Orator , man in the act of criminal ... Athenian state , who , on account of infirmity sing and draining of the city , belonged to the ædiles ; or bodily ...
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... Athenian maidens , in remembrance of Erigone and the other Athenian women who had hung themselves , swung them- selves during this festival , at the same time singing the above - mentioned song of Theodorus . ' ALABAS TER , the name ...
... Athenian maidens , in remembrance of Erigone and the other Athenian women who had hung themselves , swung them- selves during this festival , at the same time singing the above - mentioned song of Theodorus . ' ALABAS TER , the name ...
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Page 208 - And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Page 50 - They bound themselves by an oath that ' they would destroy no city of the Amphictyons, nor cut off their streams in war or peace ; and if any should do so, they would march against him and destroy his cities; and should any pillage the property of the god, or be privy to, or plan anything against what was in his temple at Delphi, they would take vengeance on him with hand, and foot, and voice, and all their might
Page 104 - Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two...
Page 126 - The chief duties of augurs were to observe and report supernatural signs. They were also the repositories of the ceremonial law, and had to advise on the expiation of prodigies and other matters of religious observance. The sources of their art were threefold: first, the formulas and traditions of the college, which in ancient times met on the nones of every month ; secondly, the...
Page 259 - With us practically, if not in theory, the essential object of a state hardly embraces more than the protection of life and property. The Greeks, on the other hand, had the most vivid conception of the state as a whole, every part of which was to co-operate to some great end to which all other duties were considered as subordinate.
Page 164 - Ep. 75) alludes to a person who married in order to comply with the law. That which was caducum came, in the first place, to those among the heredes who had children ; and if the heredes had no children, it came among those of the legatees who had children. The law gave the jus accrescendi, that is, the right to the caducum as far as the third degree of consanguinity, both ascending and descending (Ulp. Frag.