Exchange of property
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
exchange · exchange of property · the antidosis · the exchange
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1 expressionThe property exchange1 mention
On A Wound By Premeditation (Greek)
It is surprising, gentlemen of the Council, that the fact of our reconcilement is so keenly disputed, and that, while he cannot deny his having restored the yoke of oxen, the slaves, amid all the goods on the estate that he received under the exchange, he denies, in face of the settlement clearly made on every point, that we agreed to share the woman between us.
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Antidosis
The antidosis or property-exchange proceeding connected to the trierarchy, which led Isocrates to discover false opinions about him.
But it occurred to me that if I were to adopt the fiction of a trial and of a suit brought against me—if I were to suppose that a sycophant had brought an indictment and was threatening me with trouble and that he was using the calumnies which had been urged against me in the suit about the exchange of property, while I, for my part, cast my speech in the form of a defense in court—in this way it …
Then when my career was near its close, having been challenged to an exchange of property on the question of a trierarchy, and subjected to a trial on that issue, I came to realize that even outside of my profession there were those who were not disposed towards me as I had thought;
On A Wound By Premeditation
A legal exchange of property between the two men, entangled with their arrangement over the woman.
It is surprising, gentlemen of the Council, that the fact of our reconcilement is so keenly disputed, and that, while he cannot deny his having restored the yoke of oxen, the slaves, amid all the goods on the estate that he received under the exchange, he denies, in face of the settlement clearly made on every point, that we agreed to share the woman between us.
It is plain that he made the exchange because of her;