How To Use tyrannicide In A Sentence
- To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
- It is in his practical views on tyrannicide and political murder that Sexby's real inheritance still haunts us.
- They had been raised on edifying tales of Greek tyrannicides that always ended in the liberation of the city.
- I had my sword for company, my ally and partner in tyrannicide.
- The plot miscarried, only Hippias' younger brother Hipparchus was killed, and the ‘tyrannicides’ were executed.
- His objective in writing it was to defend the reputation of Dante, who, rather than according immortality to Cassius and Brutus as tyrannicides, had deemed them murderers and relegated them to the lowest circles of the Inferno.
- For they say not regicide, that is, killing of a king, but tyrannicide, that is, killing of a tyrant, is lawful. Leviathan
- To begin with the obvious: they both depict tyrannicides.
- Regarded as a major ancient source on tyranny and tyrannicide, it was the only text attributed to Plutarch known and taught during the fourteenth and much of the fifteenth century.
- Let us now return to the focus of this essay and examine how the two sculptures by Donatello relate to John of Salisbury's discussions of the state and tyrannicide.
