[COUNTER- 3: transl. Gr. ἀντιτίμησις.] Gr. Antiq. The penalty that an accused person who had been pronounced guilty suggested for himself in opposition to that which the accuser proposed.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xxxvi. IV. 494, note. The practice of calling on the accused party, after having been pronounced guilty, to impose upon himself a counter-penalty … in contrast with that named by the accuser, was a convenient expedient for bringing the question to a substantive vote of the dikasts.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 342. Why should he propose any counter-penalty when he does not know whether death … is a good or an evil?
