challenge
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The Challenge · counter-challenge
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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek)
Apollodorus tendered this challenge to Stephanus in connection with the indictment which he preferred against Neaera, charging that she, being an alien, is living as wife with him, a citizen.
in the texts
Against Boeotus II
Formal legal challenge, including oath challenges and a later challenge rejected by Boeotus.
He would not accept the challenge which I gave him according to the laws;
That I am speaking the truth on these matters also you will learn from the deposition and the challenge.
This challenge, then, he did not accept, wishing rather to lay a snare for me and to delay the suit as long as he possibly could;
Against Callicles
A formal challenge connected with proposed oaths and evidence in the dispute.
and furthermore that I tendered an oath to their mother, and challenged them to have my mother swear in the same terms, (to the clerk) take, please, the depositions and the challenge
) Please take the challenge and the remaining depositions.
The Challenge
Against Pantaenetus
A formal challenge involving torture of a slave and conditions for resolving or valuing the dispute.
However, to prove that I was compelled to give a counter-challenge contrary to what I thought was right, that I offered to give up the slave, and that I am speaking the truth in this, read the challenge.
When he had received sureties to this agreement from me and I had sealed the challenge (not that I thought it fair;
But when we had come before the torturer, instead of opening the challenge, showing its contents, and proceeding in accordance with its terms to do what seemed right (for on account of the turmoil at that time and the fact that the case was about to be called, it was like this:
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The written document recording Apollodorus's formal challenge to Stephanus to deliver Neaera's slave women for torture, with its precise conditions for resolving the case.
Apollodorus tendered this challenge to Stephanus in connection with the indictment which he preferred against Neaera, charging that she, being an alien, is living as wife with him, a citizen.
The Challenge