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Headword:
*grafh/
Adler number: gamma,439
Translated headword: public-suit, graphe
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A prosecution [sc. in classical
Athens] concerning public misdeeds, and concerning other crimes.[1] Public-suits are also brought over laws and decrees that are thought to have been introduced improperly; these are called 'public-suits for illegalities' [
grafai\ parano/mwn].[2]
*grafh/: h( peri\ tw=n dhmosi/wn a)dikhma/twn kathgori/a, kai\ peri\ tw=n a)/llwn a(marthma/twn. gi/nontai de\ grafai\ kai\ no/mwn kai\ yhfisma/twn ou)k e)pithdei/wn ei)skomi/zesqai dokou/ntwn, ai(/tines grafai\ parano/mwn kalou=ntai.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[1] (The Greek has 'the' other.) See also
gamma 440,
gamma 445; and for the parallel entry about "private" prosecutions,
delta 1089.
[2] See generally M.H. Hansen,
The Sovereignty of the People's Court in Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974). Strictly speaking, the
grafh\ parano/mwn could only be brought against decrees; against allegedly improper laws the resort was the (much rarer)
grafh\ no/mon mh\ e)pith/deion qei=nai ('public-suit [sc. charging] that a law had not been suitably framed').
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 July 2003@05:11:16.
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