Civic rights
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
civic rights · disenfranchise · disfranchised · rights as a citizen
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Political status that can be lost or restored.
As a result you decided to reinstate those who had lost their civic rights, a resolution moved by Patrocleides.
Should Cephisius here, who was responsible for the information laid against me, fail to gain one-fifth of your votes and so lose his rights as a citizen, he is forbidden to set foot within the sanctuary of the Two Goddesses under pain of death.
Against Pantaenetus
The citizen rights allegedly threatened through Pantaenetus' accusations and debtor inscription claims.
And then how absurd when he says that I plotted to disenfranchise him and bring him to utter ruin, to have written in the charge that I ordered a slave to do this,—a thing which even a citizen could not do to another citizen.
But you are so far from deserving pity, that more than any man in the world you should rightly be detested for the deeds you have wrought—you who, owing one hundred and five minae and not being able to satisfy your creditors, and then finding men who helped you to raise the money and enabled you to do what was right by those who originally made the loan, are seeking, quite apart from the wrongs yo …