Palladion
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the Palladion
in the texts
On the Embassy
The Athenian venue for bloodshed trials invoked as an example of solemn truth-speaking.
Wisely, indeed, did our fathers prescribe that, in the trials for bloodshed which are held at the Palladion, the one who wins his case must cut in pieces the sacrificial flesh, and take a solemn oath (and the custom of your fathers is in force to this day), affirming that those jurors who have voted on his side have voted what is true and right, and that he himself has spoken no falsehood;
Constitution of the Athenians
A court site trying involuntary homicide and killings of non-citizens.
For the involuntary, and for planning, and if anyone kills a slave or a metic or a foreigner, the court at the Palladion.