| 释义 |
ˈcounter-penalty Gr. Antiq.
[counter- 3: transl. Gr. ἀντιτίµησις.]
The penalty which an accused person who had been pronounced guilty suggested for himself in opposition to that which the accuser proposed.
1847Grote Greece ii. xxxvi. IV. 494 note, The practice of calling on the accused party, after having been pronounced guilty, to impose upon himself a counter-penalty..in contrast with that named by the accuser, was a convenient expedient for bringing the question to a substantive vote of the dikasts. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 342 Why should he propose any counter-penalty when he does not know whether death..is a good or an evil? |