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Headword:
Amphiorkia
Adler number: alpha,1750
Translated headword: amphiorkia, double-oath, reciprocal oath
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. This is the term for what happens] when both the plaintiff and the defendant swear, [in the course of] bringing a charge of theft against certain people. But this often was seen to be in vain. So [the] Athenians laid down a law against those hauling off certain people into prison in a case of theft, [ordering] the convicted to pay [a fine of] a thousand drachmas. But in addition [it ordered that] those denouncing citizen property as belonging to the state,[1] if they were convicted of "sykophancy",[2] these too would be fined the thousand [drachmas].
Greek Original:Amphiorkia: epeidan ho te diôkôn kai ho pheugôn omnuôsi, klopês enklêma tisin epipherontes. touto de pollakis ôphthê matên ginomenon. ethento oun Athênaioi nomon kata tôn apagontôn eis desmôtêrion tinas epi dikêi klopês, chilias didonai drachmas tous halontas. alla kai tous ousian apograpsantas tôn politôn tinas, hôs tôi dêmôi prosêkousan, ei sukophantountes haloien, kai houtoi chiliais ezêmiounto.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius.
Plausible though some or all of this might sound, as a feature of classical Athenian judicial procedure, it is not attested outside lexicography; cf. e.g.
Hesychius s.v. ("amphiorkia: when litigants exchange oaths"),
Pollux 8.123 (jurors).
[1] For
apographe see
alpha 3272,
alpha 3273.
[2] Malicious or blackmailing prosecution. See generally
sigma 1330.
Keywords: definition; economics; law; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 August 2000@20:40:02.
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