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Headword: Dikê
Adler number: delta,1090
Translated headword: suit
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] judgment.
It also means other things, but has a special application to private prosecutions, as Demosthenes makes clear in the [speech] Against Konon.[1]
Greek Original:
Dikê: krisis. sêmainei men kai alla, idiôs de epi tôn idiôtikôn enklêmatôn legetai, hôs Dêmosthenês en tôi kata Konônos dêlon poiei.
Notes:
Likewise in Photius.
[1] Demosthenes 54.1 (web address 1), cited from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
Reference:
S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 99-100
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 October 2000@08:48:43.
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