Cowardice and Desertion
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
cowardice · desertion · failure of military service · flight · throwing away his shield
spoken of as
1 expressiondesertion and cowardice“throwing away one's shield”1 mention
Against Timarchus (Greek)
Or the man who has failed to perform all the military service demanded of him, or who has thrown away his shield.
in the texts
Against Timarchus
The legal category of military cowardice or desertion, specifically failing service or discarding one's shield, treated as disqualifying a citizen from public speech.
Or the man who has failed to perform all the military service demanded of him, or who has thrown away his shield.
Against Leocrates
The vice of failing to face danger for one's country, contrasted throughout with the courage of ancestral exempla.
For death is the one fitting penalty for cowardice;
Leocrates is much more deserving of death than deserters from the army.