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1658 | In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance |
Full Idea: Down to the last third of the fifth century, 'timoria', whose original and always primary sense is "vengeance", is THE word for "punishment". | |||
From: Gregory Vlastos (Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher [1991], p.186) |