The contention grew so sharp between them that the ostracism was called into use to decide the matter.
This ostrakon was used to vote for the ostracismof Themistocles, either in 483 B.
Though ostracism was intended as a precaution against tyrants, before long it came to be used to remove unpopular politicians.
The period, about thirty years in length, between the ostracism of Cimon and the death of Pericles, forms the most brilliant epoch in Greek history.
Not that this was the use it was put to: for many did not regard the benefit of their respective communities, but made the ostracism a weapon in the hand of sedition.
This attitude of orthodoxy, threatening ostracism to any avowed freethinker who had a position to lose, must be kept in mind in estimating the English evolution of that time.
These salaries, the personal danger, the social ostracism and unhealthy climate, all lead one to feel, however, that the motive behind these pioneering efforts was strictly missionary.
This ostracism was a weapon of great power in the hands of the factions during the fourteenth century, by which they kept the road to office clear for their own followers.
He remained in Florence, but seldom has the ostracism of public opinion been more harshly exercised towards a criminal.
I cannot afford to have them suffer the humiliating consequences of the socialostracism to which they may be subjected if I remain in the Republican party.
Moreover, by bringing in a large population of non-Mormons, social ostracism would not be dreaded as it now is.
There does not exist upon the face of this broad earth a more complete social ostracism for religion than in Utah.
Few in number in any community, they found themselves, upon their return from a harsh exile, the victims of ostracism or open hostility.
Social and business ostracism continued to be employed against white radicals, while the Negroes were discharged from employment or were driven from their rented farms.
A preacher in Virginia declared that "the females, those especially whose pride has been humbled, are more intense in their bitterness and endeavor to keep up a social ostracism against Union and Northern people.
The few Northern women felt the ostracism more keenly than did the men.
The date of his death is given by Nepos as 468; at any rate he lived to witness the ostracism of Themistocles, towards whom he always displayed a generous conduct, but had died before the rise of Pericles.
And now an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism is applied, not only to all who express themselves against Slavery, but to every man unwilling to be its menial.
It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
I hope that for your own and the children's sake I will be enabled to arrange our affairs so as to find a home for you where you will not be doomed to the social isolation and ostracism that surround you here.
But if I make her my lawful wife and recognize her children as my legitimate heirs, I subject myself to social ostracism and a senseless persecution.
I often wonder if we three will be happy in Boulogne, or wherever it is social ostracism takes you to?
The device of ostracism is the final stone in the Cleisthenean structure.
Aelian says that he himself was a victim to his own device of ostracism (q.
The method of the ostracism was this:--each citizen wrote upon a shell, or a piece of broken earthenware, the name of the person he desired to banish.
Themistocles was summoned to the ordeal of the ostracism and condemned by the majority of suffrages (B.
Encouraged by the example in other states of Greece, forewarned by the tyranny of Pisistratus, Clisthenes introduced the institution of the Ostracism [248].
The ostracism was the creature of the excesses of the tyrannical, and not of the popular principle.
And compared with their offences, the ostracism of Aristides, or the fine and banishment of Cimon, lose all their colours of wrong.
The bland and specious hypocrisy of Pisistratus continued to work injury long after his death--and the ostracism of Aristides was the necessary consequence of the seizure of the citadel.
Plutarch attributes his ostracismto the resentment of the Athenians on his return from Ithome; but this is erroneous.
It is a remarkable fact, that as the republic strengthened, and as the popular power increased, the custom of ostracismwas superseded.
From a condition of social ostracism she had brought them to a position where they commanded respect and admiration for their courageous advocacy of a just cause.
What formerly would have caused ostracism is now regarded as proper and commendable.
No one ever had seen her so moved as on this occasion when her memory must have carried her back to the days of bare halls, hostile audiences, ridicule, abuse, loneliness and ostracism by all but a very few staunch friends.
Harper, and the noble band of women of which they were the type, who bravely met social ostracism and insult for devotion to the slave, will ever have a proud place in our country's history.
The Anglo-Saxon race, the proudest race of modern times, does not marry nor consort with them, nor of late years does the pure French Creole, driven to join in this ostracism by the brute force of Henghist and Horsa prejudice.
She felt with a shock that sentence of social ostracism had been passed upon her because of her father's fidelity to the Union.
One of the provisions of ostracismwas that the person banished should remain in exile for ten years.
And finally, he underwent the trial of ostracism with Thucydides, and not only succeeded in driving him into exile, but broke up his party.
