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)
For when I was on the point of instituting this suit against them they attacked me by having an exchange of estates tendered me, in order that, if I accepted it, I might not be allowed to pursue my action against them, since (they thought) this suit would then belong to the one tendering the exchange;
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.
For when I was on the point of instituting this suit against them they attacked me by having an exchange of estates tendered me, in order that, if I accepted it, I might not be allowed to pursue my action against them, since (they thought) this suit would then belong to the one tendering the exchange;
Against Phaenippus
The antidosis procedure by which one public-service taxpayer challenges another to exchange estates or assume duties.
and when (worst of all) he has concocted false debts for the purpose of the exchange—will you decide by your votes that this man has made a just declaration?
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.