Impiety and sacrilege
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
impiety · sacrilege · acts of impiety · blasphemous · crime · defilement · holy places · impious · pure · sin
spoken of as
1 expressionSacrilege and impiety1 mention
Against Timocrates (Greek)
They have robbed the Goddess of her crowns.
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Religious wrongdoing, pollution, or sacrilege as a legal accusation and rhetorical category.
Suppose that I laid the bough there, and then failed to answer the Herald.
Today, on the other hand, I commit a sacrilege and a crime by entering a temple.
No sin shall he commit, no defilement shall he suffer who slays such an one or who conspires to slay him.
Against Timocrates
Religious wrongdoing associated with destroying dedications and mishandling sacred objects.
They have robbed the Goddess of her crowns.
Such, I say, were the inscriptions on the crowns.
for they are guilty of sacrilege, of impiety, of embezzlement, of every monstrous crime.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The religious offense of desecrating sacred objects or rites, the legal category under which the Hermae mutilation and mysteries mockery are investigated.
Moreover, the people voted, that if any one knew any other act of impiety to have been committed, whoever wished, whether citizen, alien, or slave, should without fear give information of it.