| 释义 |
dicast Gr. Antiq.|ˈdɪkæst|
Also dikast.
[ad. Gr. δικαστής judge, juryman, agent-noun f. δικάζ-ειν to judge, pass judgement on, f. δίκη right, justice, judgement, trial.]
One of the 6000 citizens chosen annually in ancient Athens to try cases in the several law-courts, where their functions combined those of the modern judge and jury.
[1708Motteux Rabelais v. xi. (1737) 46 The Statues of their Dicastes.] 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. cxlv, Nearly one-third of the population of Athens were, in part, supported by their attendance upon the courts of law in the quality of dicasts, an office something between the judge and juryman of modern times. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets Ser. i. i. (1877) 30 The whole Athenian nation as dikasts and ecclesiasts, were interested in Rhetoric. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece vii. 215 The contemptible old dicast in the Wasps. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 215 This art acts upon dicasts and ecclesiasts and bodies of men. |