Water-clock
object · 13 works · 13 mentions · 14 anchored passages
the water-clock · water · water-clock · the water · allowance of water · an amphora of water in the clock · clock · klepsydra · scant water in the water-clock · the water flowing through the water-clock
spoken of as
1 expressionThe water-clock4 mentions
Against Eubulides (Greek) · Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek) · On The Estate Of Pyrrhus (Greek) · Against Philippides (Greek)
And do you check the water.
in the texts
Against Conon
The timed water allowance governing the length of the speech.
but the allowance of water is not sufficient nor is it at this time a question of such services.
Now that you may know what sort of things they do as they go about—read them these depositions, and do you check the flow of the water.
Against Eubulides
The water-clock (klepsydra) used in Athenian courts to time the speeches of litigants, mentioned when the speaker instructs the clerk to check it during the calling of witnesses.
And do you check the water.
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
The court's timing device limiting the speaker's oral argument.
If anyone through ignorance thought these men at the time of the former trial to be guileless and inoffensive persons, I wish to read you the depositions regarding them which have been furnished me by those whom they have wronged (for the water in the clock is not sufficient to permit me to tell the whole story in my speech), in order that, when you have considered the case in the light of all the …
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes
The court water used to measure speaking time.
Pour out the water.
Against Spudias
The device measuring the speaker's allotted court time.
for you know all the facts of the case, unless perhaps I have omitted something, since I have been forced to speak with but scant water in the water-clock.
Against Stephanus I
The water-clock measuring the speaker's allotted time in court.
I have much to say regarding the indignities which I have suffered, but I see that I have not enough water left in the clock.
Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
The court timing device limiting the length of Apollodorus's speech.
If, now, there were water enough in the water-clock to permit my telling you in detail from the beginning all the benefits I have conferred on them and all the acts they have committed toward me, I am sure that you would feel more lenient toward me for my resentment against them, and would deem these men the most wicked of humankind.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The timing device used to measure the length of speeches in the Athenian courtroom, referenced by Apollodorus as he plans the order of his argument.
Who it was who purchased them severally, and how they were set free by those who bought them from Nicaretê, I will tell you in the course of my speech, if you care to hear and if the water in the water-clock holds out.
Against Philippides
The klepsydra or water-clock used to measure the time allotted to speakers in Athenian courts; the speaker refers to limiting himself to one amphora's worth of water as he closes his speech.
I do not wish to speak too long after setting myself as a limit an amphora of water in the clock;
On the Estate of Menecles
The timing device used in the Athenian courtroom to allot speaking time, referenced when the speaker pauses his argument for documents to be read.
and, you, turn off the water-clock.
On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
Timing device used in Athenian courts to measure the length of speeches, ordered stopped while depositions and laws were read aloud.
and you, stop the water-clock.
and you, please stop the water-clock.
Antidosis
The court timing device marking the end of the speaker's allotted time.
But I perceive, even though my feelings carry me away, that the water in the clock is giving out, while I myself have fallen into thoughts and recriminations which would exhaust the day.
Theaetetus
The timing device used in law courts whose flowing water hurries litigants, symbolizing the constrained, time-pressured discourse of legal life.
But the men of the other sort are always in a hurry—for the water flowing through the water-clock urges them on— and the other party in the suit does not permit them to talk about anything they please, but stands over them exercising the law’s compulsion by reading the brief, from which no deviation is allowed (this is called the affidavit);