For it is hardly possible to conceive these numerous dicasteries and assemblies in regular, frequent, and long-standing operation, without an assured payment to the dicasts who composed them.
They also elected thirty dicasts or judges, who tried all causes arising in the deme where the amount involved fell below a certain sum.
What was so pernicious in Athens is perfectly harmless in England; it was the large member of the dicasts which made the mischief, and not the system of payment itself, as unreflecting writers have so often asserted.
During the administration of Pericles, this principle was applied to the dicasts in the popular courts of judicature.
At first the payment of the dicasts was one obolus.
The eagerness of the citizens to act asdicasts is ridiculed all through the play of the Wasps, brought out in 422 B.
This seems to have enraged the dicasts and he was condemned to death.
But although he addressed the dicasts in a bold uncompromising tone, he was condemned only by a small majority of five or six in a court composed of between five and six hundred dicasts.
Trials involving murder or manslaughter come before the special court of Areopagus, and cannot well be discussed here, but most other criminal cases are tried before the dicasts in much the same way as a civil trial.
Ariston has now to propose to the dicasts a sum which he thinks is adequate to avenge his wrongs and losses; Lamachus can propose a smaller sum and try to persuade the court that it is entirely proper.
There are official arbitrators to settle petty cases, but it is too often that one or both parties declare "the dicasts must settle it," and the lawsuit has to take its way.
Very soon many dicasts are tittering and whispering jibes to their companions.
The oath is admirable, but the dicasts are not in a wholly juridical state of mind.
The dicasts are assumed to approach their duty with all due solemnity.
The only alternative for the dicasts was to accept the proposition of his opponents,--in his case, death.
As expected, more than 300 dicasts vote that Ariston is entitled to damages against Lamachus as an embezzler.
There often is a certain hum of approbation from the dicasts when he makes his points.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dicasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
