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Headword:
Seisachtheia
Adler number: sigma,289
Translated headword: seisachtheia, shaking-off-of-burdens
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A cancellation of public and private debts, which
Solon brought in. Its name reflected the custom in
Athens for poor debtors to repay their creditors with physical labour; when discharged, this was tantamount to shaking off [
aposeisasthai] the burden [
achthos]; but as
Philochorus sees it, the burden was [sc. in reality] voted off.[1]
Greek Original:Seisachtheia: chreôkopia dêmosiôn kai idiôtikôn, hên eisêgêsato Solôn. eirêtai de, par' hoson ethos ên Athênêsi tous opheilontas tôn penêtôn sômati ergazesthai tois chrêstais: apodontas de hoionei to achthos aposeisasthai: hôs Philochorôi de dokei, apopsêphisthênai to achthos.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 October 2001@06:07:05.
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