Harpages graphe
ἁρπαγῆς γραφή
Harpages graphe (ἁρπαγῆς γραφή). Although the Athenians distinguished ἁρπαγὴ from κλοπή (Plat. Legg. xii. p. 941 B; Aristoph. Pl. 372), there does not seem to have existed a γραφὴ ἁρπαγῆς in Attic law. Lucian mentions it (Judic. vocal. 1); according to him, it was applicable to cases of open robbery, attended with violence (Att. Process, ed. Lipsius, p. 457).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.