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Headword:
Dikê
Adler number: delta,1089
Translated headword: lawsuit, private suit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the prosecution undertaken on behalf of wrongs against individuals, the penalty in which is fixed in the laws.[1]
"Having been a litigant in an unjust lawsuit and having fled in order to avoid being ruined before them, he survived. And [they say that] the resulting lawsuit was unjust."[2]
This is the name[3] for such lawsuits whose timing is rescheduled, either because of some political reason or after the witnesses have been convicted of perjury.
Greek Original:Dikê: hê huper idiôtikôn adikêmatôn sunistamenê katêgoria, kai hês to timêma hôristai tois nomois. ho de dikên adikon dikasas kai diaphugôn mê apolesthai proteros toutôn periên. kai dikên genesthai adikon. hai toiautai dikai houtô legontai hai eis akairon apokathistamenai êtoi dia politikên aitian ê tôn marturôn halontôn pseudokatêgorôn.
Notes:
cf. (e.g.)
alpha 344,
alpha 345,
alpha 3456,
beta 367,
delta 1090,
delta 1091,
delta 1094,
lambda 381,
omicron 962,
omicron 963.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica -- but the second element of the definition is too restrictive: only some penalties were fixed; cf.
alpha 4364.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable (Adler suggests
Aelian.)
[3] i.e.
anadikoi, "subject to appeal". This crucial word is omitted here, but see
Hesychius s.v.
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 5 July 2003@21:11:38.
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