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Headword: Graphê
Adler number: gamma,440
Translated headword: indictment
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a particular public prosecution [sc. in classical Athens]. Not only does the term apply whenever someone attacks a decree or law by lodging an indictment for illegality [grafh/ parano/mwn] but also in the case of many other public crimes. The word is common in the orators.
Greek Original:
Graphê: dêmosiou tinos enklêmatos onoma. ou monon de hotan psêphismatos ê nomou katêgorêi tis, paranomôn graphên apopheresthai kai graphesthai legetai, alla kai ep' allois pollois dêmosiois adikêmasi. pollê de hê chrêsis tois rhêtorsin.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., where Demosthenes 54.1 & 18 is cited.
See also gamma 439.
Reference:
S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 99-102
Keywords: constitution; definition; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 October 2000@09:36:05.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 3 September 2002@07:45:05.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added betacode) on 30 September 2003@10:26:25.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword) on 3 July 2011@05:13:43.
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