Dolos
Dolos ( Greek Δόλος , Latin Dolus , "cunning") is a daimon of Greek and Roman mythology . He is the personification of deception and deception.
myth
After Cicero he is a descendant of Erebos and Nyx , after Hyginus of Aither and Gaia . In a fable by Aesop he is a student of the titan Prometheus . When Prometheus formed the Aletheia out of clay , the personification of truth, he was called away from his work and he left Dolos alone in his workshop. Dolos recreated Aletheia so that an exact copy was created, but the clay was not enough for the feet. When Prometheus returned he was so impressed with the work that he burned both characters and breathed life into both. Aletheia could walk, her unfinished twin had to stay where she was and is the personification of the lie .
Disastrous attacks or plans are called Dolos or Metis and are referred to as woven.
Law
In German, the noun Dolus (and the associated adjective dolos , pronounced dolōs ) is a criminal law term and means "with intent " (in contrast to " negligence "), for example in the case of the offense of fraud . In particular, in the specialist language of the auditor, a fraudulent act is understood to mean breach of trust and falsification of accounts .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cicero : De natura deorum 3, 44 [1] .
- ^ Hyginus : Fabulae Praefatio.
- ↑ Aesop, Fable 530, from Phaedrus Fabulae: Appendix Perottina 5
- ↑ Beate Wagner-Hasel: The substance of the gifts. Culture and politics of giving and swapping in archaic Greece , Campus Fachbuch Frankfurt / Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36493-X . Page 202.
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Brockhaus-1911/A/Dolus