 Syracusan people condemned both to death, and they were executed. In the ancient democracies the most worthless individual, touching at any time a chord in consonance with popular passion, could procure the sanction of sovereign authority for any villany....  The History of Greece - Page 284by William Mitford - 1823Full view - About this book
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 470 pages
...authority for any yillany. For where no one person or select body was responsible, but the whole people were the common authors of every public act, the "Shame...• decree against Nicias and Demosthenes, the one entitled to the protection of the Spartan general, the other under that of a capitulation solemnly... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 468 pages
...any villany. For where no one perL * son or select body was responsible, but the whole people were t the common authors of every public act, the shame...black decree against Nicias and Demosthenes, the one entitled to the protection of the Spartan general, the other under that of a capitulation solemnly... | |
 | William Mitford - 1822 - 408 pages
...popular passion, could procure the sanction of soverein authority for any villany. For where neither one person nor a select body was responsible, but the...divided that it was disregarded. For any one to own CHAP. own himself author of the black decree against i XVHI- j Nicias and Demosthenes, the one intitled... | |
 | William Mitford - 1829 - 520 pages
...popular passion, could procure the sanction of sovereign authority for any villany. For where neither one person nor a select body was responsible, but the...black decree against Nicias and Demosthenes, the one entitled to the protection of the Spartan general, the other under that of a capitulation solemnly... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 502 pages
...allies, and had procure the sanction of sovereign authority for any villainy. For where neither one person nor a select body was responsible, but the...measures was so divided that it was disregarded." It is, indeed, affirmed by Justin that Demosthenes slew himself: but this is so contrary to the testimony... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 522 pages
...allies, and had procure the sanction of sovereign authority for any villainy. For where neither one person nor a select body was responsible, but the...measures was so divided that it was disregarded." It is, indeed, affirmed by Justin that Demosthenes slew himself: but this .is so contrary to the testimony... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 424 pages
...popular passion, could procure the sanction of sovereign authority for any villany. For where neither one person nor a select body was responsible, but the...authors of every public act, the shame of flagitious actions was so divided that it was disregarded. No . person, it appears, would own himself author of... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 422 pages
...popular passion, could procure the sanction of sovereign authority for any villany. For where neither one person nor a select body was responsible, but the...authors of every public act, the shame of flagitious actions was so divided that it was disregarded. No person, it appears, would own himself author of... | |
 | Frank M. Turner - 1984 - 496 pages
...Tucker, Treatise Concerning Civil Government, p. 220; Mitford, History of Greece, 2:145, 303, 318. the whole people, truly despotic, were the common...flagitious measures was so divided that it was disregarded. "22 The demagogues could not advise prudence for fear of losing their support in the Assembly; the... | |
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