Immunity
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
immunity · exemptions · immune · pardon
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Legal protection granted to informers if their information proves true.
As soon as immunity had been voted him, he stated that Mysteries had been celebrated in Pulytion’s house.
Grant immunity to him whom I indicate, and a non-initiate, a slave belonging to someone here present, shall describe the Mysteries to you.
because the law ran that whereas an informer’s claim to immunity should be allowed if his information were true, he should be put to death, if it were not.
Against Leptines
Civic exemption or privilege that Leptines' law restricts or abolishes.
None, says this law, shall be immune save and except the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton.