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Probole
(προβολή). A motion for a judicial prosecution. In Attic legal procedure it was a particular kind of public indictment. In the first assembly of every prytany, on the archon's inquiring whether the people were satisfied with the conduct of the magistrates, any citizen might accuse a magistrate of official misconduct. If the assembly considered there was foundation for the charge, the magistrate was temporarily suspended or even absolutely deposed from his office, and a judicial prosecution was instituted. Even against a private citizen, especially for doing an injury to magistrates, or to sacred persons or things, for interrupting a festival, embezzling public money, or instituting a vexatious prosecution, a complaint could be brought before the people in order to see whether they considered the case suitable for a judicial trial. The most celebrated example of this procedure is the case of Demosthenes against Midias for assaulting him in the discharge of public functions at the Dionysia. However, this neither bound the man who laid the complaint to bring forward an actual indictment nor the jury to follow in the formal trial the preliminary verdict of the people, although it would always influence them.
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