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    The Atlas·Groups

    Private citizens

    group · 4 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    private citizens · private persons · private men · citizen · citizens · men in private life · men in private station · men in private stations · private citizen

    in the texts

    HieroClassical · Greek

    Ordinary citizens or private persons whose pleasures, protections, and relationships provide the standard of comparison with despotic life.

    Yes, Simonides, and I know that the reason why most men judge that we have more enjoyment in eating and drinking than private citizens is this;
    chapter 1
    To begin with, so long as their state is not engaged in a war in which all take part, private citizens are free to go wherever they choose without fear of being killed.
    chapter 2
    Once again, to private citizens a truce or peace brings rest from war;
    chapter 2

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    Ordinary citizens contrasted with rulers regarding virtuous conduct

    private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates.
    book 10

    Against Aristogeiton IIClassical · Greek

    Ordinary citizens whose legal treatment is contrasted with that of public leaders.

    For just as on a voyage an error committed by a common sailor causes little damage, but, when the helmsman is at fault, he brings disaster on everyone aboard, so the faults of private persons cause loss not so much to the general public as to themselves, while the faults of rulers and statesmen come home to all citizens alike.
    against aristogeiton ii
    That was why Solon ordained that the penalties for private citizens should be slow, but for magistrates and political leaders swift, assuming that from the former one can get satisfaction even after some delay, but that one cannot wait for the latter, because there will be no prospect of punishment if the constitution is destroyed.
    against aristogeiton ii
    I can see that you, men of Athens, are of this opinion in your own behalf, for you have ere now decided many such informations laid against private men.
    against aristogeiton ii

    To NicoclesClassical · Greek

    Private persons are non-rulers whose life supplies ordinary forms of education and correction unavailable to kings.

    for those who educate men in private stations benefit them alone, but if one can turn those who rule over the multitude toward a life of virtue, he will help both classes, both those who hold positions of authority and their subjects;
    to nicocles
    For when men are in private life, many things contribute to their education:
    to nicocles
    Indeed, although they are placed in authority over vast wealth and mighty affairs, they have brought it about because of their misuse of these advantages that many debate whether it were best to choose the life of men in private station who are reasonably prosperous, or the life of princes.
    to nicocles