Market-place
place · 7 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
market-place · the market-place · market · marketplace · the market
spoken of as
1 expressionThe market-place2 mentions
Against Aphobus I (Greek) · Against Eubulides (Greek)
for Theogenes of Probalinthus, who leased the estate, counted out that sum in the market-place.
in the texts
Against Aristogeiton I
Public Athenian space where citizens conduct business and Aristogeiton allegedly seeks victims.
Every single one of them frequents the market-place on some business (you may be sure), either public or private.
but he makes his way through the market-place like a snake or a scorpion with sting erect, darting hither and thither, on the look-out for someone on whom he can call down disaster or calumny or mischief of some sort, or whom he can terrify till he extorts money from him.
If you heard the slanderous language that he used against you, as he paraded the market-place, you would hate him even more than you do, and with justice.
Against Aphobus I
The Athenian marketplace where Theogenes publicly paid out Antidorus's grown estate.
for Theogenes of Probalinthus, who leased the estate, counted out that sum in the market-place.
Against Aristogeiton II
Public space where Solon's statue stands.
that you set up in the market-place a bronze statue of Solon, who framed the laws, but show yourselves regardless of those very laws for the sake of which he has received such exceptional honor.
Against Eubulides
The Athenian marketplace (agora) where the speaker's mother sold ribbons, cited by Eubulides as evidence of alien status but defended by the speaker as a lawful occupation for citizens.
) Take first the law of Solon and read it, please.
for, men of Athens, Solon was thought to have enacted in this instance so wise and democratic a law that you voted to re-enact it.
We on our part acknowledge that we sell ribbons and do not live in the manner we could wish, and if in your eyes, Eubulides, this is a sign that we are not Athenians, I shall prove to you the very opposite—that it is not permitted to any alien to do business in the market.
Against Timocrates
A public space in Athens where security, arrest, and civic exclusion are discussed.
indeed, the particular charge brought against the Thirty is that they wrongfully carried men to jail from the market-place.
A poor man, or, for the matter of that, a rich man, who had spent a great deal and was, perhaps, in a certain sense short of money, was not only afraid to show himself in the market-place, but found it unsafe even to stay at home.
No, they conquered their enemies, they fulfilled the prayers of every sound-hearted man by establishing concord throughout the city, and so they have bequeathed to us their imperishable glory,and excluded from the marketplace men whose habits of life were what yours have always been.
Areopagiticus
A public urban space avoided by disciplined young men except when necessary.
And so strictly did they avoid the market-place that even when they were at times compelled to pass through it, they were seen to do this with great modesty and sobriety of manner.
Economics
The public place of business and purchasing, used as an example of fixed locations aiding retrieval.
for generally when I see you in the market-place you are either busy or at least not wholly idle.
and yet you may order any sort of servant to buy something in the market and to bring it home, and he will be at no loss: