Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), B, Berōsus, Biaiōn Diké

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Biaiōn Diké

（βιαίων δίκη). An action brought in any case of brutal violence, and brought under the jurisdiction of the Forty. In practice, it was mainly restricted to

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the illegal seizure by force of any kind of property, especially of slaves; and

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the rape, or attempted rape, of a free person.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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