Guardians
group · 4 works · 10 mentions · 21 anchored passages
guardians · co-guardians · guardian · guardians of a flock · guardians of laws and of the city · guardians of states · helpers · his co-trustees · our athletes · our helpers
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Guardians5 mentions
Republic (Greek) · Against Aphobus III (Greek)
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in the texts
Republic
The specialized military/protective class of the city, requiring a unique combination of high spirit and gentleness, and a philosophical love of wisdom.
It becomes our task, then, it seems, if we are able, to select which and what kind of natures are suited for the guardianship of a state.
And does it seem to you that our guardian-to-be will also need, in addition to the being high-spirited, the further quality of having the love of wisdom in his nature?
Then may we not confidently lay it down in the case of man too, that if he is to be in some sort gentle to friends and familiars he must be by nature a lover of wisdom and of learning?
Against Aphobus III
Aphobus, Demophon, and Therippides collectively, as the three men appointed to administer Demosthenes's inheritance.
I instituted suit, men of the jury, against Demophon, Therippides and the plaintiff for breach of trust in their guardianship, for I had been defrauded by them of all my inheritance.
This man with his co-trustees has robbed me of my entire patrimony, and, even after being clearly convicted in your court, he does not consider himself obliged to do anything reasonable.
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes
Those responsible for administering the opponents’ property during minority, including the speaker’s father and Demaretus.
For our opponents, I take it, did not bring suit for the mere name mal-administration in guardianship, but for the money;
and that when the debts had been collected and some furniture and slaves had been sold, their guardians purchased the farms and lodging-houses, which our opponents received from them.
If they are unable to prove these things, as they will be unable, we beg of you all, men of the jury, not to deliver us up as prey to these men, nor to give yet a fourth fortune to those who have mismanaged three others—that which they received from their guardians without compulsion, that which they exacted by compromising their suits, and that which the other day they took from Aesius by a judge …
Institutes of Roman Law
Legal guardians (tutores) whose sanction is required for certain acts by wards and women.
We must next observe, that neither a woman nor a ward (pupillus) can aliene a mancipable thing without their guardian’s sanction:
Thus a woman lending money without the guardian’s sanction passes the property therein to the borrower, money being a non-mancipable thing, and so imposes a contractual obligation on the borrower.
On the contrary, both mancipable and non-mancipable things can be conveyed to women and to wards without their guardian’s sanction, because they do not require his sanction to better their position.