exchange of estates
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
exchange · offer to exchange · tendering of exchanges · the exchange
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Exchange of Estates1 mention
Against Aphobus II (Greek)
in the texts
Against Aphobus II
A legal procedure whereby a wealthier citizen could challenge another to exchange properties or take on a public burden, used here by the guardians to try to obstruct the speaker's lawsuit.
Against Phaenippus
The antidosis procedure by which one public-service taxpayer challenges another to exchange estates or assume duties.
The wrongs, therefore, which Phaenippus began to do to me beginning with the very first day after the tendering of the exchanges, you have heard, men of Athens, both from myself and from the witnesses;
On the second day of the month Metageitnion, men of the jury, the generals appointed a court for the Three Hundred for the tendering of exchanges.
for it is on this account that the laws every year provide for the tendering of exchanges, because to enjoy unbroken prosperity is not wont to be the permanent fortune of any large number of our citizens.