the torture challenge
“basanos”
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Challenge · offer them for torture · the challenge · the challenge for torture of the slaves · the torture of the slave women · tortured slaves
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
On the Embassy
Aeschines' formal offer to have slaves tortured as evidence regarding the alleged secret night meeting.
Challenge
We present also our slaves and offer them for torture;
If the slaves testify that I ever slept away from these messmates of mine, spare me not, fellow citizens, but rise up and kill me.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The formal legal procedure, proposed by Apollodorus and refused by Stephanus, whereby Neaera's slave women would be tortured to establish under oath whether her children were truly hers or born of another, Athenian, mother.
Apollodorus tendered this challenge to Stephanus in connection with the indictment which he preferred against Neaera, charging that she, being an alien, is living as wife with him, a citizen.
I proposed that he should deliver up for the torture the women-servants, Thratta and Coccalinê, who remained loyally with Neaera when she came to Stephanus from Megara, and those whom she purchased subsequently, while living with him, Xennis and Drosis;
And if it should appear from the torture that this man Stephanus had married an Athenian wife and that these children were borne to him, not by Neaera, but by another woman who was an Athenian, I offered to withdraw from the case and to prevent this indictment from coming into court.
Against Leocrates
The formal legal challenge in which Lycurgus demanded Leocrates' slaves for examination under torture, which Leocrates refused.
Challenge
But if he claims that they are false, why has he not handed over his male and female slaves?
But it was just these persons whom Leocrates refused to hand over, though they were his and no one else’s.