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Headword: Eisangelia
Adler number: epsiloniota,221
Translated headword: eisangelia, impeachment
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Properly [this is] a lawsuit, brought in [sc. to court] by the prytaneis,[1] concerning communal and public crimes[2] about which the laws say nothing explicit but do allow for judgements to be made. And this is, in effect, the [topic] of unwritten crimes as practised in the sophists' discourses.
Greek Original:
Eisangelia: kuriôs hê peri koinôn kai dêmosiôn adikêmatôn eisagomenê dikê hupo tôn prutaneôn, peri hôn diarrêdên men ouden legousin hoi nomoi, sunchôrousi de kriseis genesthai. kai touto estin, hoion to en tais tôn sophistôn diatribais meletômenon to tôn agraphôn adikêmatôn.
Notes:
See also epsiloniota 220 and especially (for authentic information and quality) epsiloniota 222.
Likewise in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Plato, Republic 565C.
[1] For the Athenian prytaneis see pi 3000.
[2] cf. epsiloniota 219.
Keywords: constitution; definition; law; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 July 2005@07:50:33.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 7 July 2005@12:49:09.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation) on 11 July 2005@01:17:04.
David Whitehead on 27 November 2012@03:43:22.
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