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Headword:
Epitrepein
tois
oikeiois
Adler number: epsilon,2724
Translated headword: to entrust [the arbitration of a dispute] to one's friends
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes [sc. uses the phrase] to mean choosing them as jurors,[1] whereas
Lysias said "[he] entrusted to men," meaning [he] appointed conciliators.[2]
Greek Original:Epitrepein tois oikeiois: Dêmosthenês anti tou dikastas autous haireisthai, Lusias de epetrepsen andrasin eipen, anti tou epitropous katestêsen.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v.
e)pitre/pein (sic: i.e. shorter than the Suda's headword phrase, which comes from
Demosthenes). Besides
Demosthenes and
Lysias, below, Harpok. cites
Menander's play
Epitrepontes.
[1]
Demosthenes 27.1, with "arbitrators",
diaithtai/, instead of "jurors",
dikastai/. (The error postdates Harpok.)
[2]
Lysias fr. 63 Sauppe (now 70 Carey OCT).
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 November 2000@08:22:41.
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