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    Insolence

    idea · 5 works · 10 mentions · 19 anchored passages

    hubris · insolence · arrogance · brutal and violent · bully · insolent · insults · outrageous · outrages · pride

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    Hubris“insolence”9 mentions

    Odyssey (Greek) · Iliad (Greek) · Against Meidias (Greek) · The Law of Torts (English)

    "But the men in their insolence [ hubris] disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.
    book 14

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    The concept of insolent overreach (hubris), identified as the cause of the narrator's men's disastrous raid on Egypt.

    "But the men in their insolence [ hubris] disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.
    book 14
    Then Penelope resolved that she would show herself to the outrageous [ hubris] suitors.
    book 16
    but I will not have him go near the suitors, for they are very insolent [ hubris], and are sure to ill-treat him in a way that would greatly grieve [ akhos] me;
    book 16

    On Virtues and VicesClassical · Greek

    One of the three kinds of injustice, procuring pleasure for oneself while shaming others

    Insolence is that by which men procure pleasures for themselves while bringing others into reproach;
    on virtues and vices
    ". . . which, gaining nothing, all the same does wrong."
    on virtues and vices

    Against MeidiasClassical · Greek

    The arrogant, violent contempt for others that Demosthenes identifies as Meidias' defining vice.

    This case arises from the insolence of Meidias and from the impossibility of his undoing any of his acts.
    against meidias
    Are you alone of living men privileged to be in your daily life so notoriously possessed of the demon of arrogance that even those who have no dealings with you are exasperated by your assurance, your tones and gestures, your parasites, your wealth and your insolence;
    against meidias
    Do not then imagine that for you, gentlemen, being the descendants of such ancestors, it would be in accordance with justice or piety, to say nothing of honor, if, when you have caught a rascally, violent bully, a mere nobody and son of nobody, you should pronounce him deserving of pardon or pity or favour of any kind.
    against meidias

    IliadClassical · Greek

    The Greek concept of insolent pride or insult, explicitly glossed in the text and applied to Agamemnon's treatment of Achilles.

    rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you - and it shall surely be - that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult [ hubris].
    book 1
    To see the pride [ hubris] of Agamemnon, son of Atreus?
    book 1

    The Law of Torts19th Century · English

    The Greek concept of self-seeking indulgence of passion in contempt of others' rights and dignity, used to characterize wilful wrongs.

    Either there is deliberate injury, or there is something like the self-seeking indulgence of passion, in contempt of other men’s rights and dignity, which the Greeks called ὕβρις.
    ch. 4