Philocleon is a bigoted devotee of the malady of litigiousness so typical of his countrymen and an enthusiastic attendant at the Courts in his capacity of 'dicast' or juryman. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
Each "dicast" (to use the proper name) has a boxwood tablet to show at the entrance as his voucher to the Scythian police-archers on duty; he has also a special staff of the color of the paint on the door of the court room. [ ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
And this is the reason why in our State, and in our State only, we shall find a shoemaker to be a shoemaker and not a pilot also, and a husbandman to be a husbandman and not a dicast also, and a soldier a soldier and not a trader also, and the same throughout? ❋ Unknown (2006)
For the power does not reside in the dicast, or senator, or ecclesiast, but in the court, and the senate, and the assembly, of which individual senators, or ecclesiasts, or dicasts, are only parts or members. ❋ Aristotle (2002)
Now of offices some are discontinuous, and the same persons are not allowed to hold them twice, or can only hold them after a fixed interval; others have no limit of time — for example, the office of a dicast or ecclesiast. ❋ Aristotle (2002)
Let us not dwell further upon this, which is a purely verbal question; what we want is a common term including both dicast and ecclesiast. ❋ Aristotle (2002)
Here, Demos, feast on this dish; it is your salary as a dicast, which you gain through me for doing naught. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The final part might almost be a separate play, under the title perhaps of 'The dicast turned gentleman,' and relates various ridiculous mistakes and laughable blunders committed by ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
[698] It was the custom at Athens to draw lots to decide in which Court each dicast should serve; Praxagora proposes to apply the same system to decide the dining station for each citizen. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
He extended enormously, if he did not originate, the practice of distributing gratuities among the citizens for military service, for acting as dicast and in the Ecclesia and the like, as well as for admission to the theatre -- then really a great school for manners and instruction. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The ordinary Athenian dicast is supposed to have subsisted largely upon his pay of three obols or a half-drachma _per diem_. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The chance to hear a speech prepared by that famous oration-monger is enough to bring every dicast out early, and to summon a swarm of loiterers up from the not distant Agora. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
At the same time, your Athenian dicast is a remarkably shrewd and acute individual. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
[Isoc. de Antidosi.] [297] The pay of the dicast and the ecclesiast was, as we have just seen, first one, then three obols; and the money paid to the infirm was never less than one, nor more than two obols a day. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Neither an ecclesiast nor a dicast was, therefore, paid so much as a common sailor. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
And the final blow to the integrity and respectability of the popular judicature was given at a later period by Pericles, when he instituted a salary, just sufficient to tempt the poor and to be disdained by the affluent, to every dicast or juryman in the ten ordinary courts [222]. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
State, even if you have the capacity, or to be governed, unless you like, or to go to war when the rest go to war, or to be at peace when others are at peace, unless you are so disposed — there being no necessity also, because some law forbids you to hold office or be a dicast, that you should not hold office or be a dicast, if you have a fancy — is not this a way of life which for the moment is supremely delightful? ❋ Unknown (2006)
