The mere matter of location is of secondary importance.
Upon this opinion the dikasts decide, and decide rightly.
The Dikasts (according to Sokrates) would have known the case, had they been present when it occurred, so as to see and hear it: there is no other way of acquiring knowledge.
During the hour allotted to them for discourse, they create, in the minds of the assembled dikasts, true opinions respecting complicated incidents of robbery or other unlawfulness, at which none of the dikasts have been personally present.
An occasion for sneering at the Rhetors and Dikastsis always tempting to him.
The declaration is indeed singular, and probably many of the Dikasts did so regard it; while those who thought it serious, heard it with repugnance.
In my History of Greece, I have already spoken of this impressive discourse as it concerns the relations between Sokrates himself and the Dikasts to whom he addressed it.
They would wish you therefore to be as happy as possible.
Hippothales is the Erastes of Lysis, passionately attached to him.
Sokrates promises to give an example of the proper way of talking to a youth, for his benefit.
Oath taken by the senate and the dikasts modified.
It was for Sokratês to make his own counter-proposition, and the very small majority, by which the verdict had been pronounced, afforded sufficient proof that the dikasts were no way inclined to sanction the extreme penalty against him.
Now every speaker before the Athenian dikastery thinks himself entitled to call up before the dikasts the whole past life of his opponent, in the way of analogous evidence going to attest the general character of the latter, good or bad.
Had he proposed, with little or no preface, the substitute-fine of thirty minæ with which this part of his speech concluded, there is every reason for believing that the majority of dikasts would have voted for it.
The effect produced upon the dikasts was such as Sokratês anticipated beforehand, and heard afterwards without surprise as without discomposure, in the verdict of guilty.
Plato’s works), that this defence may be reasonably taken as a reproduction by Plato of what Sokratês actually said to the dikasts on his trial.
Aggravation of feeling in the dikasts against him in consequence of his behavior.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dikasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
