Challenge
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: challenge the object
challenge · challenged · challenges · the challenge
in the texts
Against Stephanus I
A legal challenge used either to demand opening a document or to test a slave by torture.
for instance, a man may not be put to torture in your presence—for this it is necessary that there be a challenge;
Now as to whether Phormio tendered me this challenge or not, and whether the will is genuine or spurious I say nothing as yet;
Who is there, men of the jury, who, on a charge like that, if he were sure of his innocence, would not have accepted the torture?
Against Stephanus II
A formal procedural demand in litigation, including demands to open the document and to surrender female slaves for evidentiary torture.
For all pieces of evidence which the parties to a suit bring before the court when they tender challenges to one another, they bring in by means of depositions.
The deponents testify that they were present when Apollodorus challenged Phormio, namely, when Apollodorus demanded that Phormio give up the female slaves for the torture, if Phormo denied that he had seduced my mother before the time when Phormio declares that he married her, after she had been betrothed to him by Pasio.
Nay more, to prove that I was absent in command of a trireme, and that my father had been dead for some time, when the fellow married, I demanded of him the female slaves, and claimed the right of having them put to the torture to establish this very point, whether what I am saying is true—to prove all this, and that I tendered him a challenge, (to the clerk) please take the deposition.