| William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1846 - 402 pagine
...apt to think that obsoleie statutes may be infringed with, impunity. Hence the term nvicofyavTelv, which originally signified to lay an information against...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (TOV /Jou/lo^tvov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of justice.... | |
| Aristophanes - 1849 - 262 pagine
...appearance, complaining that the winged birds have nothing. " 2vKoфavnjr," says Smith (Dict, of Antiq.), " in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes, designated...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (TOV ßov/iápеvov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of... | |
| Aristophanes - 1849 - 256 pagine
...complaining that the winged birds have nothing. " Еикофот^," says Smith (Diet, of Antiq.), " in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes, designated...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (rà/ ßov\o/j.evov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of... | |
| Titus Maccius Plautus - 1852 - 690 pagine
...cunning and villanous character, and who, as it has been justly observed, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary, was " a happy compound of the common barretor, informer,...pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer." In fact, he was such a person as we moan by the epithet "swindler" or "sharper." Information being... | |
| Titus Maccius Plautus - 1852 - 584 pagine
...cunning and villanons character, and who, as it has been justly obsen«l, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary, was " a happy compound of the common barretor, informer,...pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer." In fact, he was roch a person as we mean by the epithet "swindler" or "sharper." Information king encouraged... | |
| William Smith - 1854 - 396 pagine
...apt to think that obsolete statutes may be infringed with impunity. Hence the term miKoQavrtlv, whi6h originally signified to lay an information against...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (TOV (iovhopevov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of justice.... | |
| Xenophon - 1855 - 592 pagine
...and privately accused him to different members of the council, aa marring th« 1 TWV avKofyavriovJ] " Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes...barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liari and slanderer" Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities. CH. 3.] CRITIAS ACCUSES THERAMENES. 329 government.... | |
| Aristophanes - 1861 - 262 pagine
...their levity and fickleness by similar comparisons to birds. 1395. irp\v &v SiaSpafiш. G. § 67, 1. and Demosthenes, designated a person of a peculiar...with our sycophant, but was a happy compound of the eommon barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer. The Athenian law permitted... | |
| William Smith - 1868 - 492 pagine
...truieo<j>avTeivt which originally signified to lay an information against another for exporting ßcs, came to be applied to all ill-natured, malicious,...sycophant, but was a happy compound of the common barrator, informer^ pettifogger, busybody, royue, liar, and slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any... | |
| Aristophanes - 1872 - 276 pagine
...their levity and fickleness by similar comparisons to birds. 1395. irpiv av 8iaSpáfia>. G. § 67, 1. and Demosthenes, designated a person of a peculiar...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (TW ßov\ofi.(vov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of justice.... | |
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