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
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1 expressionThe Guardians5 mentions
Republic (Greek) · Against Aphobus III (Greek)
Is it, then, only the poets that we must supervise and compel to embody in their poems the semblance of the good character or else not write poetry among us, or must we keep watch over the other craftsmen, and forbid them to represent the evil disposition, the licentious, the illiberal, the graceless, either in the likeness of living creatures or in buildings or in any other product of their art, …
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.
Neither must we admit at all, said I, that gods war with gods and plot against one another and contend—for it is not true either— if we wish our future guardians to deem nothing more shameful than lightly to fall out with one another;
When anyone says that sort of thing about the gods, we shall be wroth with him, we will refuse him a chorus, neither will we allow teachers to use him for the education of the young if our guardians are to be god-fearing men and god-like in so far as that is possible for humanity.
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?
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.
Yet, although the release was thus given in the presence of numerous witnesses, and although the law manifestly absolves us, these men have come to such a pitch of shamelessness and audacity, that, when fourteen years have elapsed from the time when they gave my father a release, and twenty-two years after they had first indicted him, when my father was now dead, with whom the settlement had been …
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.
Institutes of Roman Law
Legal guardians (tutores) whose sanction is required for certain acts by wards and women.
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.
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.