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Ideas of Gregory Vlastos, by Text

[American, 1907 - 1991, Professor at the University of California, at Berkeley.]

1991	Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

p.186	p.186	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)