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Headword: Sunônê
Adler number: sigma,1614
Translated headword: buying-up, coemptio, compulsory purchase, requisition
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Under Justinian[1] the production of grain was scanty and the import of grain arrived insufficient to meet the need. He[2], at a loss what to do in the present circumstances, was minded to attempt to raise a great quantity of grain from farms in Bithynia and Phrygia and Thrace. It was necessary for those living there to bring the cargoes to the sea with great labor and to transport them into Byzantium with risk and to bring away payments from him [sc. Petros], to be sure short in their reckoning, and for the loss to them to rise to such an amount that they rejoiced if someone allowed them to make a present of the grain to the public at home, and to pay an additional price for it. This is the burden which they were accustomed to call 'buying-up.'[3]
Greek Original:
Sunônê. hoti epi Ioustinianou hê tou sitou phora espanize, kai endeesterôs ê kata tên chreian ho sitagôgos stolos aphiketo. aporoumenos de tois parousin, en te Bithuniai kai Phrugiai kai Thraikêi chôriôn peirasthai mega ti chrêma sitou êxiou. ên te anankaion tois tautêi oikousi mechri men eis tên thalassan ponôi pollôi ta phortia pherein, es Buzantion de xun kindunôi tauta eskomizesthai kai brachea men timêmata dêthen tôi logôi pros autou pheresthai, tên zêmian de autois es tosonde megethous kathistasthai, hôste agapan, ên tis autous eôiê ton te siton oikôi dêmosiôi charizesthai, kai timêma heteron huper autou katatithenai. touto esti to achthos, hoper sunônên kalein nenomikasi.
Notes:
The entry is taken almost verbatim from ProcopiusAnecdota (a.k.a. Secret History) 22.17-19. See also 23.11-14 (and Agathias, Histories 4.22). The end of the present passage, expanded at 23.13-14, supplies a gloss for the initially unglossed headword.
[1] Eastern Roman Emperor, reigned 527-565 CE. See iota 446, OCD4 s.v., and web address 1 below.
[2] Not Justinian, but a minister named Petros Barsymes (pi 1409).
[3] Dewing (see bibliography below) in his note on this passage defined the term as 'purchase by the government at a price which made the process practically confiscation.' For the headword and its cognates in general see LSJ s.v.
Reference:
Procopius, Anecdota, ed. and tr., H.B. Dewing, London and Cambridge, MA, 1935.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; chronology; definition; economics; ethics; food; geography; historiography; history; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Oliver Phillips ✝ on 27 November 2002@20:48:00.
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