单词 | dicast |
释义 | dicastn. Ancient Greek History. 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. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > in ancient Greece or Rome heliast1807 dicast1820 juryman1879 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xii. 57 The Statues of their Dicastes.] 1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. cxlv (note) 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. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 206 This art acts upon dicasts and ecclesiasts and bodies of men. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 30 The whole Athenian nation, as dikasts and ecclesiasts, were interested in Rhetoric. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece vii. 215 The contemptible old dicast in the Wasps. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1820 |
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