Homicide
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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.
he composes a special decree in favour of a particular man.
The first statute expressly ordains that, if any man slay another, the Areopagus shall take cognizance.
The second statute forbids personal maltreatment or extortion even in the case of a convicted homicide.
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.