Amnestia
(
ἀμνηστία). A word used to describe the arrangement by
which offences were
forgotten. The word is chiefly found used of real
or alleged breaches of the laws committed during the conflicts of opposing factions in the
Greek republics. A notable amnesty was that arranged at Athens by the mediation of the
Spartan king Pausanias, by which the overthrow of the Thirty was brought about, in B.C. 403.
See Grote, chap. lxv.; and
Adeia.