 ... signifying sworn brotherhoods. The objects proposed were principally two ; private security and political power; and for the sake of one or both of these, most men of rank or substance in Athens were members of some Synomosy. Against the oppression...  The History of Greece - Page 338by William Mitford - 1823Full view - About this book
 | William Mitford - 1822 - 408 pages
...solemn oath to their ingagements was therefore always required of the members; whence the societies obtained their name, signifying sworn brotherhoods6....noble and wealthy citizens might give protection, when the most respectable individual, standing single on his merits, would be overwhelmed : and the same... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 502 pages
...required of the members; whence the societies obtained their names, signifying sworn brotherhoods. The objects proposed were principally two ; private...noble and wealthy citizens might give protection, when the most respectable individual, stand*ing single on his merits, would be overwhelmed : and the same... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 522 pages
...sworn brotherhoods. The objects proposed were principally two; private security and political power j and for the sake of one or both of these, most men...noble and wealthy citizens might give protection, when the most respectable individual, standing single on his merits, would be overwhelmed : and the same... | |
 | William Mitford - 1829 - 520 pages
...required of the members; whence the societies obtained their name, signifying sworn brotherhoods. fi The objects proposed were principally two; private...shall see more particularly hereafter, very severely 8 Svytaifiiirriaf. aiirip lYuy^aror irpoTipnr iy rij ToXii ojirai tirj c.Vaic Kai ap^aif. Societal... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 508 pages
...required of the members; whence the societies obtained their names, signifying sworn brotherhoods. The objects proposed were principally two; private...members of some Synomosy. Against the oppression of democrática! despotism, which was often, as we shall see more particularly hereafter, very severely... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 454 pages
...always required of the members; whence the societies obtained their name, signifying sworn brotherhoods. The objects proposed were principally two ; private...of democratical despotism, which was often, as we learn particularly from Xenophon, very severely exercised against the rich, the collected influence... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1836 - 348 pages
...always required of the members ; whence the society obtained their name, signifying sworn brotherhoods. The objects proposed were principally two ; private...members of some Synomosy. Against the oppression of democratic»! despotism, which was often, as we shall see more particularly hereafter, very severely... | |
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