Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A penalty proposed as a substitute for another: as, in Greek antiquity (translating Gr.
ἀντιτίμησις ), the penalty which a person convicted of crime was permitted to suggest for himself as an alternative to that proposed by the accuser.
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Examples
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In the first place, when called upon to suggest a counter-penalty,42 he would neither do so himself nor suffer his friends to do so for him, but went so far as to say that to propose a counter-penalty was like a confession of guilt.
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Or why should he propose any counter-penalty when he does not know whether death, which Anytus proposes, is a good or an evil?
The Apology 2006
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In the first place, when called upon to suggest a counter-penalty, [42] he would neither do so himself nor suffer his friends to do so for him, but went so far as to say that to propose a counter-penalty was like a confession of guilt.
The Apology 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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Or why should he propose any counter-penalty when he does not know whether death, which Anytus proposes, is a good or an evil?
Apology 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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