Those about which there is no written law.
Same entry in other lexica.
The headword phrase (neuter plural) is vague-looking, but it belongs in a particular context: the procedure for eisangelia ("impeachment") in classical
Athens. Lexicographers on this subject defined as impeachable offences not only specific acts of treason or corruption but also "unwritten public crimes",
ἄγραφα δημόσια ἀδικήματα . Besides the present entry see, chiefly,
Pollux 8.51 and Lex. Rhet. Cant., s.v. eisangelia; and cf.
Aristotle, Rhetoric 1375a15. Amongst modern scholars,
Rhodes (below) accepts this while Hansen (below) 16-17 and 19-20 does not; their exchanges were continued in
JHS 1979 (
Rhodes) and 1980 (Hansen).
P.J. Rhodes, The Athenian Boule (Oxford 1972)
M.H. Hansen, Eisangelia (Odense 1975)
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