Prison
place · 7 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
prison · jail · the prison · In prison · a place of retreat · a place of safekeeping · stocks · wrestling-school
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
On the Mysteries
Place where Andocides and others were confined after Diocleides' information.
We were all thrown into one prison.
Against Aristogeiton I
Place of detention connected with Aristogeiton’s father, Aristogeiton’s escape, and his crimes against a Tanagran prisoner.
Now read also the precious resolution that was passed about him.
Before Aristogeiton was released, a man of Tanagra was thrown into the prison until he could find bail.
On the occasion when he broke prison and ran away, he visited a certain woman named Zobia, with whom he had probably cohabited at one time.
Against Stephanus I
The place to which the speaker imagines taking Phormio if caught as a thief.
And yet, by the gods, if I had led you off to prison as a thief caught in the act, piling upon your back—if this had been in any way possible—the wealth which you now possess, and had then demanded of you, if you denied having got this wealth by thievery, to refer me to the source from which you got it, to whom would you have referred me?
Against Timocrates
The place and institution of imprisonment central to the challenged law.
—And such is your conduct, Timocrates;
—You did not bring in your law gratuitously, Timocrates.
we must either pay down the money or incontinently be lodged in prison.
Phaedo
The Athenian prison near the court where Socrates was held and where the dialogue takes place.
We used to meet at daybreak in the court where the trial took place, for it was near the prison;
We went in then and found Socrates just released from his fetters and Xanthippe—you know her—with his little son in her arms, sitting beside him.
Letters to Lucilius
The prison where Socrates awaited execution, refusing offered escape.
In prison Socrates held a disputation and, when there were those who promised him flight, refused to go out, and remained, that he might take from men the fear of two most grievous things, death and prison.
Ad Martyras
The physical place of confinement where the martyrs await trial, repeatedly reinterpreted through metaphor.
And so, blessed ones, count yourselves transferred, should the case arise, from a prison into a place of safekeeping.
We, who are to obtain an eternal one, take the prison to be our wrestling-school, that we may be led out to the stadium of the tribunal well exercised in every hardship;
Among the nourishments of the flesh, blessed martyrs elect, which our lady mother the Church furnishes you in prison from her breasts, and which the brethren one by one supply from their own resources, accept also something from us that may serve to nourish the spirit as well.