The Development of the Athenian Constitution

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Cornell University, 1893 - 249 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 177 - The law concerning naturalizing strangers is of doubtful character ; he permitted only those to be made free of Athens, who were in perpetual exile from their own country, or came with their whole family to trade there ; this he did, not to discourage strangers, but rather to invite them to a permanent participation in the privileges of the government; and besides he thought those would prove the more faithful citizens, who had been forced from their own country, or voluntarily forsook it.
الصفحة 39 - As for the wooers bid them scatter them each one to his own, and for thy mother, if her heart is moved to marriage, let her go back to the hall of that mighty man her father, and her kinsfolk will furnish a wedding feast, and array the gifts of wooing exceeding many, all that should go back with a daughter dearly beloved.
الصفحة 41 - Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a grandson he obtains immortality, but through his son's grandson he gains the world of the sun.
الصفحة 178 - ... thinking that being seduced into wrong was as bad as being forced, and that between deceit and necessity, flattery and compulsion, there was little difference, since both may equally suspend the exercise of reason. He regulated the walks, feasts, and mourning of the women, and took away everything that was either unbecoming or immodest; when they walked abroad, no more than three articles of dress were allowed them; an obol's worth of meat and drink; and no basket above a cubit high; and at night...
الصفحة 48 - But the kind of rule differs; —the freeman rules over the slave after another manner from that in which the male rules over the female, or the man over the child; although the parts of the soul are present in all of them, they are present in different degrees. For the slave has no deliberative faculty at all; the woman has, but it is without authority, and the child has, but it is immature.
الصفحة 38 - Then wise Telemachus answered him, saying: 'Antinous, I may in no wise thrust forth from the house, against her will, the woman that bare me, that reared me: while as for my father he is abroad on the earth, whether he be .alive or dead. Moreover it is hard for me to make heavy restitution to Icarius, as needs I must, if of mine own will I send my mother away. For I shall have evil at his hand, at the hand of her father, and some god will give me more besides, for my mother will call down the dire...
الصفحة 48 - Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old age ; a woman is never fit for independence.
الصفحة 81 - 3. By mutual rights of succession to property. 4. By reciprocal obligations of help, defense, and redress of injuries. 5. By mutual right and obligation to intermarry in certain determinate cases, especially where there was an orphan i — Demosthenes, "Eubulldes," 1307. daughter or heiress. 6. By possession, in some cases, at least, of common property, an archon and treasurer of their own.
الصفحة 74 - Then Alcinous made answer, and spake unto him: 'Yea, the word that she hath spoken shall hold, if indeed I am yet to live and bear rule among the Phaeacians, masters of the oar. Howbeit let the stranger, for all his craving to return, nevertheless endure to abide until the morrow, till I make up the full measure of the gift; and men shall care for his convoy, all men, but I in chief, for mine is the lordship in the land.
الصفحة 42 - And may the gods grant thee all thy heart's desire: a husband and a home, and a mind at one with his may they give — a good gift, for there is nothing mightier and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house, a grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy, but their own hearts know it best.

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