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subject	book bibliographic info
accusation	Malherbe et al (2014) 671, 874, 878 Schiffman (1983) 89, 91, 92, 95, 96, 100, 101, 102, 104, 108, 112
accusation, about, old age	Malherbe et al (2014) 280, 497, 503
accusation, against, christians	Malherbe et al (2014) 226, 582, 757, 826
accusation, against, epicurus	Malherbe et al (2014) 48
accusation, against, heraclitus	Malherbe et al (2014) 602, 606, 617, 618, 628
accusation, against, odysseus	Malherbe et al (2014) 155
accusation, against, paul	Malherbe et al (2014) 14, 54, 159, 217, 906
accusation, financial support	Malherbe et al (2014) 519
accusation, judaism	Malherbe et al (2014) 722
accusation, justin	Malherbe et al (2014) 887
accusation, magic, anti-jewish	Bloch (2022) 1, 42, 43, 44
accusation, of magic against, apuleius	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 164
accusation, of miaros, pollution, impurity	Martin (2009) 20, 210
accusation, of parents	Martin (2009) 140
accusation, of sorcery	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 162
accusations	Humfress (2007) 48, 255, 256, 257
accusations, against early christians, cannibalism	König (2012) 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 304, 315, 316
accusations, against, epicureanism	Malherbe et al (2014) 739, 762, 832, 833
accusations, anti-christian	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 151
accusations, atheism, against, christians	Malherbe et al (2014) 362, 387, 665, 794, 813, 816, 824, 825, 887, 888, 889
accusations, atheism, against, diogenes	Malherbe et al (2014) 611
accusations, atheism, against, epicureans	Malherbe et al (2014) 756, 762
accusations, atheism, against, jews	Malherbe et al (2014) 756
accusations, of consulship of. see consulship, ciceros, incest	Keeline (2018) 108, 158, 185
accusations, of consulship of. see consulship, ciceros, prostitution	Keeline (2018) 158, 185
accusations, of flattery, horace’s sensitivity to	Yona (2018) 83, 206, 226
accusations, of flattery, philodemus of gadara	Yona (2018) 21, 55, 167, 185, 192
accusations, of heresy	Humfress (2007) 260
accusations, of lithomania	Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 269, 270
accusations, of love magic	Faraone (1999) 2, 7, 9, 10, 85, 114, 135, 155
accusations, of simony	Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 270
accusations, of witchcraft	Eidinow (2007) 293, 294
accusations, separate from actual, innovation, claims and	Klawans (2019) 6, 8, 129
accusative, adverbial	Burton (2009) 25, 26
accusative, in greek construction	Griffiths (1975) 193, 196
accusative, in greek construction, acc. neuter of adjective after in	Griffiths (1975) 240
accusative, ou plus	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 87, 104
accuse, others of cannibalism, christians	Isaac (2004) 210
accused, adulteress	Hasan Rokem (2003) 69
accused, by, tribunes of the plebs, augurs	Konrad (2022) 278, 279, 280
accused, delphinion, defendant, cf.	Riess (2012) 27, 35, 143
accused, god	Gera (2014) 246, 271
accused, of adultery, cleitophon	Pinheiro et al (2012a) 134, 136, 139, 140, 141, 144, 145
accused, of atheism, christian	Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022) 106, 109, 110, 111, 131
accused, of blasphemy, roman empire	Schremer (2010) 169
accused, of cannibalism, britons	Isaac (2004) 220
accused, of cannibalism, carthaginians	Isaac (2004) 209, 334
accused, of cannibalism, christians	Isaac (2004) 210
accused, of cannibalism, druids	Isaac (2004) 208
accused, of cannibalism, egyptians	Isaac (2004) 364
accused, of cannibalism, hannibal’s army	Isaac (2004) 209, 220
accused, of cannibalism, jews	Isaac (2004) 475
accused, of cannibalism, scythians, distinct from all other peoples	Isaac (2004) 208, 209
accused, of crudelitas, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020) 67, 68, 69, 70
accused, of deviating from christs teaching	Simmons(1995) 30
accused, of failure to settle in palestine, levites	Kalmin (1998) 121
accused, of falsity	Simmons(1995) 30
accused, of falsity, gave gifts to men	Simmons(1995) 21
accused, of falsity, hated by the gods	Simmons(1995) 30
accused, of falsity, ignorance of noted by porphyry	Simmons(1995) 20
accused, of falsity, miracles of	Simmons(1995) 21
accused, of falsity, pagans attack peter and paul	Simmons(1995) 25
accused, of human sacrifice, carthaginians	Isaac (2004) 334, 475
accused, of magic, apuleius	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 159, 164, 290
accused, of magic, christians	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 155, 159, 160, 162
accused, of magic, jews	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 162
accused, of offering human sacrifice, jews	Isaac (2004) 475
accused, of orphism, hippolytus	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 197, 198, 199
accused, of parricide	Walters (2020) 105, 107, 111, 112, 113
accused, of parricide, clodius pulcher, p.	Walters (2020) 106, 107
accused, of refusal to settle in babylonia, babylonians, palestine, strict class system	Kalmin (1998) 8, 76, 77
accused, of refusal to settle in palestine, babylonia, babylonians	Kalmin (1998) 16, 17
accused, of refusal to settle in palestine, role of synagogue in israel babylonia, babylonians, and, distinguished	Kalmin (1998) 131
accused, of sensationalism, phylarchus, historian	Feldman (2006) 416
accused, of taking bribes, pythia	Johnston (2008) 44, 50
accused, of tearing the state apart, clodius pulcher, p.	Walters (2020) 62
accused, of vainglory, jesus	Azar (2016) 136
accused, of wounding republic	Walters (2020) 112
accused, of “magical” practices, apuleius	Hoenig (2018) 110
accused, of “shamelessness”, cynics/cynicism	Yona (2018) 39, 40
accused, to trial, right of	Bickerman and Tropper (2007) 749, 750, 775, 820, 822, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830
accused, wife, fornication, falsely	Monnickendam (2020) 160
accused/defendant	Riess (2012) 25, 26, 27, 31, 40, 45, 46, 50, 56, 65, 67, 68, 71, 84, 90, 91, 104, 106, 108, 111, 126, 129, 135, 158, 172, 216, 219, 286, 287, 307, 324, 336, 389
accuser, prison, cf. jail prosecuter, cf. prostitute, cf. concubine punch	Riess (2012) 59, 63, 82, 108, 119, 136, 267, 336
accuser, the	Tellbe Wasserman and Nyman (2019) 19, 33, 34
accuser/prosecutor	Riess (2012) 26, 31, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 50, 67, 68, 69, 71, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 91, 93, 94, 96, 98, 104, 107, 108, 130, 134, 135, 143, 152, 158, 172, 216, 217, 219, 288, 389
accusers, delatores informers	Fertik (2019) 156, 157, 158, 161, 165, 202, 203
accuses, aristotelians of accepting the cruelty of anger, plutarch of chaeroneia, middle platonist, but also	Sorabji (2000) 209, 210
accuses, aristotelians of accepting unbridled anger, philodemus, epicurean	Sorabji (2000) 210
accuses, caesar’s killers of parricide	Walters (2020) 110, 111
accuses, caesar’s killers of parricide, letter to octavian and hirtius	Walters (2020) 110, 111
accuses, caesar’s killers of parricide, on caesar as parens patriae	Walters (2020) 109, 110
accuses, caesar’s killers of parricide, proscribing and mutilating the republic	Walters (2020) 118
accuses, catilinarians of murdering state, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020) 82
accuses, egyptian villagers of cannibalism, juvenal	Isaac (2004) 209
accuses, octavius of maiming power of plebs, sempronius gracchus, ti.	Walters (2020) 58, 63, 71
accuses, opponents of violence against body politic, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020) 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64
accuses, philippus of cutting senate, licinius crassus, l., orator	Walters (2020) 58, 69
accuses, stoics of indeterminism, galen	Graver (2007) 232
accuses, sulla of corrupting the army in sallust, asia, on the origins of african peoples	Isaac (2004) 147, 148

List of validated texts:

13 validated results for "accused"

1. Hebrew Bible, Leviticus, 5.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Accusation • Accuser, the

Found in books: Schiffman (1983) 101, 112; Tellbe Wasserman and Nyman (2019) 19

5.1. וְאֶת־הַשֵּׁנִי יַעֲשֶׂה עֹלָה כַּמִּשְׁפָּט וְכִפֶּר עָלָיו הַכֹּהֵן מֵחַטָּאתוֹ אֲשֶׁר־חָטָא וְנִסְלַח לוֹ׃'
5.1. וְנֶפֶשׁ כִּי־תֶחֱטָא וְשָׁמְעָה קוֹל אָלָה וְהוּא עֵד אוֹ רָאָה אוֹ יָדָע אִם־לוֹא יַגִּיד וְנָשָׂא עֲוֺנוֹ׃ '. None

5.1. And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity;''. None

2. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 5.11-5.31 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Accusation • fornication, falsely accused wife

Found in books: Monnickendam (2020) 160; Schiffman (1983) 112

5.11. וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר׃ 5.12. דַּבֵּר אֶל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי־תִשְׂטֶה אִשְׁתּוֹ וּמָעֲלָה בוֹ מָעַל׃ 5.13. וְשָׁכַב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ שִׁכְבַת־זֶרַע וְנֶעְלַם מֵעֵינֵי אִישָׁהּ וְנִסְתְּרָה וְהִיא נִטְמָאָה וְעֵד אֵין בָּהּ וְהִוא לֹא נִתְפָּשָׂה׃ 5.14. וְעָבַר עָלָיו רוּחַ־קִנְאָה וְקִנֵּא אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ וְהִוא נִטְמָאָה אוֹ־עָבַר עָלָיו רוּחַ־קִנְאָה וְקִנֵּא אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ וְהִיא לֹא נִטְמָאָה׃ 5.15. וְהֵבִיא הָאִישׁ אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵן וְהֵבִיא אֶת־קָרְבָּנָהּ עָלֶיהָ עֲשִׂירִת הָאֵיפָה קֶמַח שְׂעֹרִים לֹא־יִצֹק עָלָיו שֶׁמֶן וְלֹא־יִתֵּן עָלָיו לְבֹנָה כִּי־מִנְחַת קְנָאֹת הוּא מִנְחַת זִכָּרוֹן מַזְכֶּרֶת עָוֺן׃ 5.16. וְהִקְרִיב אֹתָהּ הַכֹּהֵן וְהֶעֱמִדָהּ לִפְנֵי יְהוָה׃ 5.17. וְלָקַח הַכֹּהֵן מַיִם קְדֹשִׁים בִּכְלִי־חָרֶשׂ וּמִן־הֶעָפָר אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה בְּקַרְקַע הַמִּשְׁכָּן יִקַּח הַכֹּהֵן וְנָתַן אֶל־הַמָּיִם׃ 5.18. וְהֶעֱמִיד הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה לִפְנֵי יְהוָה וּפָרַע אֶת־רֹאשׁ הָאִשָּׁה וְנָתַן עַל־כַּפֶּיהָ אֵת מִנְחַת הַזִּכָּרוֹן מִנְחַת קְנָאֹת הִוא וּבְיַד הַכֹּהֵן יִהְיוּ מֵי הַמָּרִים הַמְאָרֲרִים׃ 5.19. וְהִשְׁבִּיעַ אֹתָהּ הַכֹּהֵן וְאָמַר אֶל־הָאִשָּׁה אִם־לֹא שָׁכַב אִישׁ אֹתָךְ וְאִם־לֹא שָׂטִית טֻמְאָה תַּחַת אִישֵׁךְ הִנָּקִי מִמֵּי הַמָּרִים הַמְאָרֲרִים הָאֵלֶּה׃' '5.21. וְהִשְׁבִּיעַ הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה בִּשְׁבֻעַת הָאָלָה וְאָמַר הַכֹּהֵן לָאִשָּׁה יִתֵּן יְהוָה אוֹתָךְ לְאָלָה וְלִשְׁבֻעָה בְּתוֹךְ עַמֵּךְ בְּתֵת יְהוָה אֶת־יְרֵכֵךְ נֹפֶלֶת וְאֶת־בִּטְנֵךְ צָבָה׃ 5.22. וּבָאוּ הַמַּיִם הַמְאָרְרִים הָאֵלֶּה בְּמֵעַיִךְ לַצְבּוֹת בֶּטֶן וְלַנְפִּל יָרֵךְ וְאָמְרָה הָאִשָּׁה אָמֵן אָמֵן׃ 5.23. וְכָתַב אֶת־הָאָלֹת הָאֵלֶּה הַכֹּהֵן בַּסֵּפֶר וּמָחָה אֶל־מֵי הַמָּרִים׃ 5.24. וְהִשְׁקָה אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה אֶת־מֵי הַמָּרִים הַמְאָרֲרִים וּבָאוּ בָהּ הַמַּיִם הַמְאָרֲרִים לְמָרִים׃ 5.25. וְלָקַח הַכֹּהֵן מִיַּד הָאִשָּׁה אֵת מִנְחַת הַקְּנָאֹת וְהֵנִיף אֶת־הַמִּנְחָה לִפְנֵי יְהוָה וְהִקְרִיב אֹתָהּ אֶל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ׃ 5.26. וְקָמַץ הַכֹּהֵן מִן־הַמִּנְחָה אֶת־אַזְכָּרָתָהּ וְהִקְטִיר הַמִּזְבֵּחָה וְאַחַר יַשְׁקֶה אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה אֶת־הַמָּיִם׃ 5.27. וְהִשְׁקָהּ אֶת־הַמַּיִם וְהָיְתָה אִם־נִטְמְאָה וַתִּמְעֹל מַעַל בְּאִישָׁהּ וּבָאוּ בָהּ הַמַּיִם הַמְאָרֲרִים לְמָרִים וְצָבְתָה בִטְנָהּ וְנָפְלָה יְרֵכָהּ וְהָיְתָה הָאִשָּׁה לְאָלָה בְּקֶרֶב עַמָּהּ׃ 5.28. וְאִם־לֹא נִטְמְאָה הָאִשָּׁה וּטְהֹרָה הִוא וְנִקְּתָה וְנִזְרְעָה זָרַע׃ 5.29. זֹאת תּוֹרַת הַקְּנָאֹת אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׂטֶה אִשָּׁה תַּחַת אִישָׁהּ וְנִטְמָאָה׃ 5.31. וְנִקָּה הָאִישׁ מֵעָוֺן וְהָאִשָּׁה הַהִוא תִּשָּׂא אֶת־עֲוֺנָהּ׃''. None

5.11. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 5.12. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man’s wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him, 5.13. and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, she being defiled secretly, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken in the act; 5.14. and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he warned his wife, and she be defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he warned his wife, and she be not defiled; 5.15. then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 5.16. And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD. 5.17. And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. 5.18. And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy; and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse. 5.19. And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: ‘If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse; 5.20. but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband— 5.21. then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman—the LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy belly to swell; 5.22. and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away’; and the woman shall say: ‘Amen, Amen.’ 5.23. And the priest shall write these curses in a scroll, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. 5.24. And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 5.25. And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before the LORD, and bring it unto the altar. 5.26. And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 5.27. And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have acted unfaithfully against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 5.28. And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed. 5.29. This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; 5.30. or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous over his wife; then shall he set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. 5.31. And the man shall be clear from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.''. None

3. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Magic, anti-Jewish accusation • accused/defendant • accuser/prosecutor

Found in books: Bloch (2022) 43; Riess (2012) 216

364b. καὶ πένητες ὦσιν, ὁμολογοῦντες αὐτοὺς ἀμείνους εἶναι τῶν ἑτέρων. τούτων δὲ πάντων οἱ περὶ θεῶν τε λόγοι καὶ ἀρετῆς θαυμασιώτατοι λέγονται, ὡς ἄρα καὶ θεοὶ πολλοῖς μὲν ἀγαθοῖς δυστυχίας τε καὶ βίον κακὸν ἔνειμαν, τοῖς δʼ ἐναντίοις ἐναντίαν μοῖραν. ἀγύρται δὲ καὶ μάντεις ἐπὶ πλουσίων θύρας ἰόντες πείθουσιν ὡς ἔστι παρὰ σφίσι δύναμις ἐκ θεῶν ποριζομένη θυσίαις τε καὶ ἐπῳδαῖς, εἴτε τι''. None

364b. and disregard those who are in any way weak or poor, even while admitting that they are better men than the others. But the strangest of all these speeches are the things they say about the gods and virtue, how so it is that the gods themselves assign to many good men misfortunes and an evil life but to their opposites a contrary lot; and begging priests and soothsayers go to rich men’s doors and make them believe that they by means of sacrifices and incantations have accumulated a treasure of power from the gods that can expiate and cure with pleasurable festival''. None

4. Aeschines, Letters, 1.173, 1.175-1.176, 3.171-3.172 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Accusation • sophistry, accusations of

Found in books: Hesk (2000) 212, 214, 217; Michalopoulos et al. (2021) 50, 82, 344

1.173. Did you put to death Socrates the sophist, fellow citizens, because he was shown to have been the teacher of Critias, one of the Thirty who put down the democracy, and after that, shall Demosthenes succeed in snatching companions of his own out of your hands, Demosthenes, who takes such vengeance on private citizens and friends of the people for their freedom of speech? At his invitation some of his pupils are here in court to listen to him. For with an eye to business at your expense,Success in this case will increase Demosthenes' reputation, and bring him more pupils and tuition fees. he promises them, as I understand, that he will juggle the issue and cheat your ears, and you will never know it; " '
1.175. So I do beg you by all means not to furnish this sophist with laughter and patronage at your expense. Imagine that you see him when he gets home from the court-room, putting on airs in his lectures to his young men, and telling how successfully he stole the case away from the jury. “I carried the jurors off bodily from the charges brought against Timarchus, and set them on the accuser, and Philip, and the Phocians, and I suspended such terrors before the eyes of the hearers that the defendant began to be the accuser, and the accuser to be on trial; and the jurors forgot what they were to judge; and what they were not to judge, to that they listened.” 1.176. But it is your business to take your stand against this sort of thing, and following close on his every step, to let him at no point turn aside nor persist in irrelevant talk; on the contrary, act as you do in a horse-race, make him keep to the track—of the matter at issue. If you do that, you will not fail of respect, and you will have the same sentiments when you are called to enforce laws that you had when you made them; but if you do otherwise, it will appear that when crimes are about to be committed, you foresee them and are angry, but after they have been committed, you no longer care.
3.171. His father was Demosthenes of Paeania, a free man, for there is no need of lying. But how the case stands as to his inheritance from his mother and his maternal grandfather, I will tell you. There was a certain Gylon of Cerameis. This man betrayed Nymphaeum in the Pontus to the enemy, for the place at that time belonged to our city. He was impeached and became an exile from the city, not awaiting trial. He came to Bosporus and there received as a present from the tyrants of the land a place called “the Gardens.”' "3.172. Here he married a woman who was rich, I grant you, and brought him a big dowry, but a Scythian by blood. This wife bore him two daughters, whom he sent hither with plenty of money. One he married to a man whom I will not name—for I do not care to incur the enmity of many persons,—the other, in contempt of the laws of the city, Demosthenes of Paeania took to wife. She it was who bore your busy-body and informer. From his grandfather, therefore, he would inherit enmity toward the people, for you condemned his ancestors to death and by his mother's blood he would be a Scythian, a Greek-tongued barbarian—so that his knavery, too, is no product of our soil."". None

5. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • accused/defendant • accuser/prosecutor • defendant, cf. accused Delphinion • witchcraft, accusations of

Found in books: Eidinow (2007) 293; Riess (2012) 27, 84

6. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.145, 2.148, 2.161 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Magic, anti-Jewish accusation • accusation, Judaism

Found in books: Bloch (2022) 43, 44; Malherbe et al (2014) 722

2.145. ̓Επεὶ δὲ καὶ ̓Απολλώνιος ὁ Μόλων καὶ Λυσίμαχος καί τινες ἄλλοι τὰ μὲν ὑπ' ἀγνοίας, τὸ πλεῖστον δὲ κατὰ δυσμένειαν περί τε τοῦ νομοθετήσαντος ἡμῖν Μωσέως καὶ περὶ τῶν νόμων πεποίηνται λόγους οὔτε δικαίους οὔτε ἀληθεῖς, τὸν μὲν ὡς γόητα καὶ ἀπατεῶνα διαβάλλοντες, τοὺς νόμους δὲ κακίας ἡμῖν καὶ οὐδεμιᾶς ἀρετῆς φάσκοντες εἶναι διδασκάλους, βούλομαι συντόμως καὶ περὶ τῆς ὅλης ἡμῶν καταστάσεως τοῦ πολιτεύματος καὶ περὶ τῶν" "
2.148. ἀπὸ τῶν νόμων, καθ' οὓς ζῶντες διατελοῦμεν. ἄλλως τε καὶ τὴν κατηγορίαν ὁ ̓Απολλώνιος οὐκ ἀθρόαν ὥσπερ ὁ ̓Απίων ἔταξεν, ἀλλὰ σποράδην, καὶ δὴ εἴπας ποτὲ μὲν ὡς ἀθέους καὶ μισανθρώπους λοιδορεῖ, ποτὲ δ' αὖ δειλίαν ἡμῖν ὀνειδίζει καὶ τοὔμπαλιν ἔστιν ὅπου τόλμαν κατηγορεῖ καὶ ἀπόνοιαν. λέγει δὲ καὶ ἀφυεστάτους εἶναι τῶν βαρβάρων καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μηδὲν εἰς τὸν βίον εὕρημα συμβεβλῆσθαι μόνους." "
2.161. οὐθὲν ἀνέχονται ἐξαμαρτεῖν. τοιοῦτος μὲν δή τις αὐτὸς ἡμῶν ὁ νομοθέτης, οὐ γόης οὐδ' ἀπατεών, ἅπερ λοιδοροῦντες λέγουσιν ἀδίκως, ἀλλ' οἵους παρὰ τοῖς ̔́Ελλησιν αὐχοῦσιν τὸν Μίνω γεγονέναι"". None

2.145. 15. But now, since Apollonius Molo, and Lysimachus, and some others, write treatises about our lawgiver Moses, and about our laws, which are neither just nor true, and this partly out of ignorance, but chiefly out of ill will to us, while they calumniate Moses as an impostor and deceiver, and pretend that our laws teach us wickedness, but nothing that is virtuous, I have a mind to discourse briefly, according to my ability, about our whole constitution of government, and about the particular branches of it;
2.148. Moreover, since this Apollonius does not do like Apion, and lay a continued accusation against us, but does it only by starts, and up and down his discourse, while he sometimes reproaches us as atheists, and man-haters, and sometimes hits us in the teeth with our want of courage, and yet sometimes, on the contrary, accuses us of too great boldness, and madness in our conduct; nay, he says that we are the weakest of all the barbarians, and that this is the reason why we are the only people who have made no improvements in human life;
2.161. and this is the character of our legislator; he was no impostor, no deceiver, as his revilers say, though unjustly, but such a one as they brag Minos to have been among the Greeks, and other legislators after him; ''. None

7. New Testament, Matthew, 18.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Accusation • accusation,about old age

Found in books: Malherbe et al (2014) 503; Schiffman (1983) 92

18.16. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀκούσῃ, παράλαβε μετὰ σοῦ ἔτι ἕνα ἢ δύο, ἵνα ἐπὶ στόματος δύο μαρτύρων ἢ τριῶν σταθῇ πᾶν ῥῆμα·''. None

18.16. But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. "". None

8. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Magic, anti-Jewish accusation • magic, Christians, accused of

Found in books: Bloch (2022) 44; Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 160

9. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • accusation,against Christians • cannibalism, accusations against early Christians • right of accused to trial

Found in books: Bickerman and Tropper (2007) 830; König (2012) 296, 297; Malherbe et al (2014) 757

10. Aeschines, Or., 1.173, 1.175-1.176, 3.171-3.172
Tagged with subjects: • Accusation • sophistry, accusations of

Found in books: Hesk (2000) 212, 214, 217; Michalopoulos et al. (2021) 50, 82, 344

11. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.40, 21.104-21.122, 21.147, 21.209
Tagged with subjects: • accused/defendant • accuser/prosecutor • miaros (pollution, impurity), accusation of • prison, cf. jail prosecuter, cf. accuser prostitute, cf. concubine punch • sophistry, accusations of

Found in books: Hesk (2000) 213; Martin (2009) 20, 210; Riess (2012) 40, 56, 67, 129, 136

21.40. Such statements, then, are quite in point if one wishes to accuse those men today, but as a defence of Meidias against my indictments they are the very last pleas that should be urged. For my conduct was clean contrary to theirs. It will be proved that I never got, or tried to get, any advantage for myself, but religiously observed, and have now restored to your keeping, the task of avenging the laws, the god, and your interests. Do not then allow him to make these statements, or if he persists, do not give him credence as if his plea were just. If he finds that this is your fixed determination, he will have nothing to say, not a word.
21.104. But I will now relate a serious act of cruelty committed by him, men of Athens, which I at least regard as not merely a personal wrong but a public sacrilege. For when a grave criminal charge was hanging over that unlucky wretch, Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, at first, Athenians, Meidias went round the Market-place and ventured to spread impious and atrocious statements about me to the effect that I was the author of the deed; next, when this device failed, he went to the relations of the dead man, who were bringing the charge of murder against Aristarchus, and offered them money if they would accuse me of the crime. He let neither religion nor piety nor any other consideration stand in the way of this wild proposal: he shrank from nothing. 21.105. Nay, he was not ashamed to look even that audience in the face and bring such a terrible calamity upon an innocent man; but having set one goal before him, to ruin me by every means in his power, he thought himself bound to leave no stone unturned, as if it were only right that when any man, having been insulted by him, claimed redress and refused to keep silence, he should be removed by banishment without a chance of escape, should even find himself convicted of desertion, should defend himself on a capital charge, and should be in imminent danger of crucifixion. Yet when Meidias is proved guilty of all this, as well as of his insults when I was chorus-master, what leniency, what compassion shall he deserve at your hands? 21.106. My own opinion, men of Athens, is that these acts constitute him my murderer; that while at the Dionysia his outrages were confined to my equipment, my person, and my expenditure, his subsequent course of action shows that they were aimed at everything else that is mine, my citizenship, my family, my privileges, my hopes. Had a single one of his machinations succeeded, I should have been robbed of all that I had, even of the right to be buried in the homeland. What does this mean, gentlemen of the jury? It means that if treatment such as I have suffered is to be the fate of any man who tries to right himself when outraged by Meidias in defiance of all the laws, then it will be best for us, as is the way among barbarians, to grovel at the oppressor’s feet and make no attempt at self-defence. 21.107. However, to prove that my statements are true and that these things have actually been perpetrated by this shameless ruffian, please call the witnesses. The Witnesses We, Dionysius of Aphidna and Antiphilus of Paeania, when our kinsman Nicodemus had met with a violent death at the hands of Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, prosecuted Aristarchus for murder. Learning this, Meidias, who is now being brought to trial by Demosthenes, for whom we appear, offered us small sums of money to let Aristarchus go unharmed, and to substitute the name of Demosthenes in the indictment for murder. Now let me have the law concerning bribery. 21.108. While the clerk is finding the statute, men of Athens, I wish to address a few words to you. I appeal to all of you jurymen, in the name of Zeus and all the gods, that whatever you hear in court, you may listen to it with this in your minds: What would one of you do, if he were the victim of this treatment, and what anger would he feel on his own account against the author of it? Seriously distressed as I was at the insults that I endured in the discharge of my public service, I am far more seriously distressed and indigt at what ensued. 21.109. For in truth, what bounds can be set to wickedness, and how can shamelessness, brutality and insolence go farther, if a man who has committed grave-yes, grave and repeated wrongs against another, instead of making amends and repenting of the evil, should afterwards add more serious outrages and should employ his riches, not to further his own interests without prejudice to others, but for the opposite purpose of driving his victim into exile unjustly and covering him with ignominy, while he gloats over his own superabundance of wealth? 21.110. All that, men of Athens, is just what has been done by Meidias. He brought against me a false charge of murder, in which, as the facts proved, I was in no way concerned; he indicted me for desertion, having himself on three occasions deserted his post; and as for the troubles in Euboea—why, I nearly forgot to mention them!-troubles for which his bosom-friend Plutarchus was responsible, he contrived to have the blame laid at my door, before it became plain to everyone that Plutarchus was at the bottom of the whole business. 21.111. Lastly, when I was made senator by lot, he denounced me at the scrutiny, and the business proved a very real danger for me; for instead of getting compensation for the injuries I had suffered, I was in danger of being punished for acts with which I had no concern. Having such grievances and being persecuted in the way that I have just described to you, but at the same time being neither quite friendless nor exactly a poor man, I am uncertain, men of Athens, what I ought to do. 21.112. For, if I may add a word on this subject also, where the rich are concerned, Athenians, the rest of us have no share in our just and equal rights. Indeed we have not. The rich can choose their own time for facing a jury, and their crimes are stale and cold when they are dished up before you, but if any of the rest of us is in trouble, he is brought into court while all is fresh. The rich have witnesses and counsel in readiness, all primed against us; but, as you see, my witnesses are some of them unwilling even to bear testimony to the truth. 21.113. One might harp on these grievances till one was weary, I suppose; but now recite in full the law which I began to quote. Read. The Law If any Athenian accepts a bribe from another, or himself offers it to another, or corrupts anyone by promises, to the detriment of the people in general, or of any individual citizen, by any means or device whatsoever, he shall be disfranchised together with his children, and his property shall be confiscated. 21.114. This man, then, is so impious, so abandoned, so ready to say or do anything, without stopping for a moment to ask whether it is true or false, whether it touches an enemy or a friend, or any such question, that after accusing me of murder and bringing that grave charge against me, he suffered me to conduct initiatory rites and sacrifices for the Council, and to inaugurate the victims on behalf of you and all the State; 21.115. he suffered me as head of the Sacred Embassy to lead it in the name of the city to the Nemean shrine of Zeus; he raised no objection when I was chosen with two colleagues to inaugurate the sacrifice to the Dread Goddesses. The Eumenides (Furies), whose sanctuary was a cave under the Areopagus. Would he have allowed all this, if he had had one jot or tittle of proof for the charges that he was trumping up against me? I cannot believe it. So then this is conclusive proof that he was seeking in mere wanton spite to drive me from my native land. 21.116. Then, when for all his desperate shifts he could bring none of these charges home to me, he turned informer against Aristarchus, aiming evidently at me. To pass over other incidents, when the Council was in session and was investigating the murder, Meidias came in and cried, Don’t you know the facts of the case, Councillors? Are you wasting time and groping blindly for the murderer, when you have him already in your hands? -meaning Aristarchus. Won’t you put him to death? Won’t you go to his house and arrest him? 21.117. Such was the language of this shameless and abandoned reptile, though only the day before he had stepped out of Aristarchus’s house, though up till then he had been as intimate with him as anyone could be, and though Aristarchus in the day of his prosperity had often importuned me to settle my suit with Meidias out of court. Now if he said this to the Council, believing that Aristarchus had actually committed the crime which has since proved his ruin, and trusting to the tale told by his accusers, yet even so the speech was unpardonable. 21.118. Upon friends, if they seem to have done something serious, one should impose the moderate penalty of withdrawing from their friendship; vengeance and prosecution should be left to their victims or their enemies. Yet in a man like Meidias this may be condoned. But if it shall appear that he chatted familiarly under the same roof with Aristarchus, as if he were perfectly innocent, and then uttered those damning charges against him in order to involve me in a false accusation, does he not deserve to be put to death ten times—no! ten thousand times over? 21.119. I am going to call the witnesses now present in court to prove that my version of the facts is correct; that on the day before he told that tale to the Council, he had entered Aristarchus’s house and had a conversation with him; that on the next day-and this, men of Athens, this for vileness is impossible to beat—he went into his house and sat as close to him as this, and put his hand in his, in the presence of many witnesses, after that speech in the Council in which he had called Aristarchus a murderer and said the most terrible things of him; that he invoked utter destruction on himself if he had said a word in his disparagement; that he never thought twice about his perjury, though there were people present who knew the truth, and he actually begged him to use his influence to bring about a reconciliation with me. 21.120. And yet, Athenians, must we not call it a crime, or rather an impiety, to say that a man is a murderer and then swear that one has never said this to reproach a man with murder and then sit in the same room with him? And if I let him off now and so stultify your vote of condemnation, I am an innocent man apparently; but if I proceed with my case, I am a deserter, I am accessory to a murder, I deserve extermination. I am quite of the contrary opinion, men of Athens . If I had let Meidias off, then I should have been a deserter from the cause of justice, and I might reasonably have charged myself with murder, for life would have been impossible for me, had I acted thus. 21.121. And now please call the witnesses to attest the truth of these statements also. The Witnesses We, Lysimachus of Alopece, Demeas of Sunium, Chares of Thoricus, Philemon of Sphetta, Moschus of Paeania, know that at the date when the indictment was presented to the Council charging Aristarchus, the son of Moschus, with the murder of Nicodemus, Meidias, who is now being tried at the suit of Demosthenes, for whom we appear, came before the Council and stated that Aristarchus, and no one else, was the murderer of Nicodemus, and he advised the Council to go to the house of Aristarchus and arrest him. This he said to the Council, having dined on the previous day with Aristarchus in our company. We also know that Meidias, when he came from the Council after making this statement, again entered the house of Aristarchus and shook hands with him and, invoking destruction on his own head, swore that he had said nothing in his disparagement before the Council, and he asked Aristarchus to reconcile Demosthenes to him. 21.122. Can anything go beyond that? Has there ever been, or could there ever be, baseness to compare with this of Meidias? He felt justified in informing against that unfortunate man, who had done him no wrong—I waive the fact that he was his friend—and at the same time he was begging him to bring about a reconciliation between himself and me; and not content with this, he spent money on an iniquitous attempt to procure my banishment as well as that of Aristarchus.
21.147. Yet what was his insolence compared with what has been proved of Meidias today? He boxed the ears of Taureas, when the latter was chorus-master. Granted; but it was as chorus-master to chorus-master that he did it, and he did not transgress the present law, for it had not yet been made. Another story is that he imprisoned the painter Agatharchus. Yes, but he had caught him in an act of trespass, or so we are told; so that it is unfair to blame him for that. He was one of the mutilators of the Hermae. All acts of sacrilege, I suppose, ought to excite the same indignation, but is not complete destruction of sacred things just as sacrilegious as their mutilation? Well, that is what Meidias has been convicted of.
21.209. Suppose, gentlemen of the jury, that these men—never may it so befall, as indeed it never will—made themselves masters of the State, along with Meidias and others like him; and suppose that one of you, who are men of the people and friends to popular government, having offended one of these men,—not so seriously as Meidias offended me, but in some slighter degree—came before a jury packed with men of that class; what pardon, what consideration do you think he would receive? They would be prompt with their favour, would they not? Would they heed the petition of one of the common folk? Would not their first words be, The knave! The sorry rascal! To think that he should insult us and still draw breath! He ought to be only too happy if he is permitted to exist ?''. None

12. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Accusation • parents, accusation of

Found in books: Martin (2009) 140; Michalopoulos et al. (2021) 40

13. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • accused/defendant • parents, accusation of

Found in books: Martin (2009) 140; Riess (2012) 25

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