 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1846 - 373 pages
...came to be applied to all illnatured, malicious, groundless, and vexatious accusations. Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (TOV /Jou/lo^tvov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of justice.... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1849
...complaining that the winged birds have nothing. " Еикофот^," says Smith (Diet, of Antiq.), " in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes, designated...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (rà/ ßov\o/j.evov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of... | |
 | Aristophanes, Cornelius Conway Felton - 1849 - 228 pages
...complaining that the winged birds have nothing. " 2vKoфavnjr," says Smith (Dict, of Antiq.), " in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes, designated...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (TOV ßov/iápеvov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of... | |
 | WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D. - 1851
...came to be applied to all illnatured, malicious, groundless, and vexatious accusations. Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (rbv (Sovho/tevov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of justice.... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - Greece - 1852
...cunning and villanous character, and who, as it has been justly observed, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary, was " a happy compound of the common barretor, informer,...pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer." In fact, he was such a person as we moan by the epithet "swindler" or "sharper." Information being... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - 1852
...cunning and villanons character, and who, as it has been justly obsen«l, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary, was " a happy compound of the common barretor, informer,...pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer." In fact, he was roch a person as we mean by the epithet "swindler" or "sharper." Information king encouraged... | |
 | Xenophon - Education of princes - 1855 - 579 pages
...accused him to different members of the council, aa marring th« 1 TWV avKofyavriovJ] " Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated...barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liari and slanderer" Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities. CH. 3.] CRITIAS ACCUSES THERAMENES. 329 government.... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1861
...their levity and fickleness by similar comparisons to birds. 1395. irp\v &v SiaSpafiш. G. § 67, 1. and Demosthenes, designated a person of a peculiar...with our sycophant, but was a happy compound of the eommon barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer. The Athenian law permitted... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1864 - 236 pages
...their levity and fickleness by similar comparisons to birds. 1395. V» *» 8ш8ра^ш. G. § 67, 1. and Demosthenes, designated a person of a peculiar...slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any citizen (rbv /3сwXo/«vov) to give information against public offenders, and prosecute them in courts of justice.... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1868 - 474 pages
...to be applied to all ill-natured, malicious, groundless, and vexatious accusations. Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated...sycophant, but was a happy compound of the common barrator, informer^ pettifogger, busybody, royue, liar, and slanderer. The Athenian law permitted any... | |
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in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes, designated a person of a peculiar class, not capable of being described by any single word in our language, but well understood and appreciated by an Athenian. He had not much in common with our sycophant,... 
