If they did, they were punishable themselves by thedikastery afterwards (Demosth.
Both of them fled immediately on this revelation; but Diokleidês was detained, sent before the dikastery for trial, and put to death.
Both the drama and the dikastery recognise two or more different ways of looking at a question, and require that no conclusion shall be pronounced until opposing disputants have been heard and compared.
He is said to have addressed the Dikastery as an advocate for the accused general Chabrias: and we are told that he discharged the expensive and showy functions of Choregus, with funds supplied by Dion.
He (Sokrates) has incurred odium from the Dikastery and the public, because he is heretical and incredulous.
An action for recovery of money alleged to be owing was brought in the Athenian Dikastery against AEschines, by a plaintiff, who set forth his case in a speech composed by the rhetor Lysias.
He repaid neither principal nor interest; though a judgment of the Dikastery had been obtained against him, and a branded slave belonging to him had been seized under it.
But if he be found guilty of sacrificing either at home or in the public temples, after the commission of any act which the Dikastery may consider grave impiety--he shall be condemned to death.
The defrauded buyer would have brought his action before the Dikastery against the fraudulent seller, who, if found guilty, would have been condemned in damages to make good the wrong: perhaps fined besides.
It would be irrelevant here to say that Sokrates was not guilty of what was imputed to him: that he never came before the Dikastery until the time of his trial--and that he did not teach "the art of words".
He would not have allowed so much discretion to the numerous and turbulent Dikasteries of Athens: but he regards his select Dikastery as perfectly trustworthy.
The Dikastery will decide how much compensation he shall furnish.
Xenophon specifies as being so eminently useful to a person engaged in a lawsuit, are probably the persons who knew how to address the dikastery effectively in support of his case (Xenoph.
Both he and Archeptolemus were found guilty by the dikastery and condemned to the penalties of treason.
Lysias prosecuted Eratosthenês before the dikastery some years afterwards, as having caused the death of Polemarchus.
The young man in Aristophanês does not compare his situation with that of the culprit, but with that of the dikastery which tried culprits.
His life was legally blameless, nor had he ever been brought up before the dikastery until his one final trial, when he was seventy years of age.
Even if actions at law or accusations had been brought, in violation of the amnesty, this would not prove that the people violated it; unless we also knew that the dikastery had affirmed those actions.
The impeachment against Antiphon, tried immediately afterwards, went before the senate and the dikastery exactly according to the old democratical forms of procedure.
Aristotle, that Isokrates distinguished himself at first as a composer of speeches intended to be delivered by actual pleaders in theDikastery or Ekklesia; and that he afterwards altered his style.
Demosthenes himself may probably have been among the trierarchs called before the dikastery as witnesses to prove what took place at Perinthus and Alopekonnesus (Demosth.
The acrimony of Demosthenes and Æschines was discharged by mutual eloquence of vituperation, while the assembly or the dikastery afterwards decided between them.
The minds of the dikastery would be powerfully affected by seeing before them such a man as Jason of Pheræ, at that moment the most powerful individual in Greece; and we are not surprised to learn that Timotheus was acquitted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dikastery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
