Civic rights and disfranchisement
“atimia”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
atimia · disfranchisement · lose my civic rights · loss of civic rights
in the texts
Against Aphobus I
The Athenian legal penalty of disfranchisement threatening the speaker if he loses this suit and cannot pay the resulting damages.
while in my case the sum is fixed, so that I shall not only have been robbed of my inheritance, but shall also lose my civic rights, unless you now take pity on me.
not upon those who so cruelly rob another of his goods, but upon me, who have for so long a time been deprived of my inheritance and treated with outrage by these men, and who am now in danger of losing my civic rights.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The concept of the loss of citizen rights and property as a legal penalty, threatened against Apollodorus by Stephanus's prosecutions and prescribed as punishment under the laws cited against Stephanus and Neaera.
If anyone shall give an alien woman in marriage to an Athenian man, representing her as being related to himself, he shall lose his civic rights and his property shall be confiscated, and a third part of it shall belong to the one who secures his conviction.
To the jurors, therefore, who at that time decided the matter I am deeply grateful for this at least, that they did not suffer Apollodorus to be utterly ruined, but fixed the amount of the fine at one talent, so that he was able to discharge the debt, although with difficulty.
For the property of Apollodorus did not amount to as much as three talents to enable him to pay in full a fine of such magnitude, yet if it were not paid by the ninth prytany the fine would have been doubled and Apollodorus would have been inscribed as owing thirty talents to the treasury, all the property that he has would have been scheduled as belonging to the state, and upon its being sold Apo …