endeixis
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See also: Endeixis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔνδειξις (éndeixis). See endeictic.
Noun
[edit]endeixis
- (historical) A legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.
- 1836, Heinrich Hase, The Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, page 295:
- Thus, the endeixis was the proper form in the case of persons banished for the crime of homicide; of habitual contemners of religion who were caught intruding at any sacred rite; and mroe especially of public debtors who had wrongfully appropriated public funds. In all these cases the guilt to the accused was presumed, unless he could show grounds entitling him to a hearing and to a regular trial.
- 1892, E Poste, Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens:
- In Endeixis (denunciation) the accused was beyond the reach of the prosecutor and his summons.
- 1993, Raphael Sealey, Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat, page 238:
- Apart from this remark there is no evidence that prosecutors were elected for the procedure of endeixis. (Hansen notes that prosecutors were elected for the novel procedure of apophasis, as is evident from the scandal concerning Harpalos, and suggests that prosecutors could be elected for an endeixis.)