Homicide
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Homicide the idea
homicide · convicted homicide · kills · manslayer · murder · murders · slay another · vengeful murders
in the texts
Against Aristocrates
Killing of a person as the matter regulated by the cited statutes and decree.
The second statute forbids personal maltreatment or extortion even in the case of a convicted homicide.
If he had provided for the due punishment of a man tried and found guilty elsewhere, or if he had himself proposed a trial to determine whether homicide has been committed or not, and if so whether justifiably or not, he would have done no wrong.
But inasmuch as, after a phrase of mere accusation, if any man kills, without any such addition as and is found guilty of murder, or, is adjudged to have killed, or, he shall submit to judgement for the murder, or, he shall be liable to the same penalty as if he had killed an Athenian, he has omitted every just precaution, and has simply made the man liable to seizure, do not be led astray, but be …
Against Leptines
Killing treated as a grave offense under Athenian law and as a point of comparison for Leptines' harsher rule.
What but those vengeful murders against which our specially appointed protector is the Council of the Areopagus?
he defined the circumstances that make homicide justifiable and proclaimed the accused in such case free from taint.