The scrutiny
“dokimasia”
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
scrutiny · pass the scrutiny · scrutinies · scrutinized · the drawing of the lots · the scrutiny
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
The formal examination process new magistrates undergo before taking office, including genealogical questioning, accusation opportunity, and oath-swearing.
then whether he treats his parents well, and pays his taxes, and has performed his military service.
" And if there is an accuser, he gives accusation and defence, and so puts it, in the Council, to the show of hands, in the law-court to the vote.
Having been scrutinized in this way, they go to the stone on which are the pieces of the victims, on which the arbitrators too swear before declaring their decisions, and the witnesses swear off their testimonies.
Against Philon
The formal Athenian examination of a citizen's fitness to serve on the Council, the proceeding at which Philon is being accused.
I did not suppose, gentlemen of the Council, that Philon would ever carry audacity to the point of consenting to appear before you in order to pass a scrutiny.
it is he who deprived himself of it, at the time when he declined to come, with a zeal such as brings him now for the drawing of the lots, to take his stand with you then as a champion of the Council.
In Defense of Mantitheus
The Athenian dokimasia, a formal examination of a candidate's whole life and conduct.
But it seems to me, gentlemen, that although in other trials one ought to confine one’s defence to the actual points of the accusation, in the case of scrutinies one has a right to render an account of one’s whole life.
And moreover, gentlemen, nobody will be able to prove that I have ever been cited in a disgraceful private suit, or in public proceedings or in a special impeachment;