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5 results for "piraeus"

1. Plato, Laws, 637b, 637a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 318

2. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.287, 21.10 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •piraeus dionysia Found in books: Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 318

19.287. The man who for your sake proposed the prohibition, under penalty of death, of carrying arms to Philip is vilified and disgraced; the man who surrendered to Philip the armaments of our allies is his accuser. Immorality—save the mark!—was the theme of his speech, while at his side stood his two brothers-in-law, the very sight of whom is enough to set you in an uproar,—the disgusting Nicias, who went to Egypt as the hireling of Chabrias, and the abominable Cyrebio, Cyrebrio, a nickname, offal ( κυρήβια = bran); the man’s real name was Epicrates. the unmasked harlequin of the pageants. But that was nothing: under his eyes sat his brother Aphobetus. In truth, on that day all that declaiming against immorality was like water flowing upstream. For this metaphor to express topsyturvydom cf. Eur. Med. 410 — ἄνω ποταμῶν ἱερῶν χωροῦσι παγαί, καὶ δίκα καὶ πάντα πάλιν στρέφεται . 21.10. Now I want to read to you the next law as well, because it will illustrate to all of you the self-restraint of the citizens in general and the hardihood of the defendant. Read the law. The Law Evegorus proposed that, on the occasion of the procession in honor of Dionysus in Peiraeus with the comedies and tragedies, the procession at the Lenaeum with the comedies and tragedies, the procession at the City Dionysia with the boys’ contests and the revel and the comedies and tragedies. and also at the procession and contest of the Thargelia, it shall not be lawful on those days to distrain or to seize any debtors’ property, even if they are defaulters. If anyone transgresses any of these regulations, he shall be liable to prosecution by the aggrieved party, and public plaints against him as an offender may be lodged at the meeting of the Assembly in the temple of Dionysus, as is provided by statute in the case of other offenders.

3. Plutarch, On Love of Wealth, 527d, 8 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan

4. Ambrosiaster, Csel, 1.249.7-1.249.9 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •piraeus dionysia Found in books: Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 468

5. Papyri, Tebtunis Papyri I, 75 Tagged with subjects: •piraeus dionysia Found in books: Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 318

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