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Headword:
Barathron
Adler number: beta,100
Translated headword: cleft, pit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A deep place where, at
Athens, criminals and men sentenced to death were thrown in;[1] just as the Spartans [threw such people] into the Keadas.[2]
Greek Original:Barathron: topos bathus, hopou hoi kakourgoi emballontai Athênêsi kai hoi epi thanatôi: hôsper eis ton Keadan hoi Lakedaimonioi.
Notes:
Similar material, variously, in other lexica and
scholia.
[1] See already
beta 99 and further under
beta 101.
[2] On the Keadas/Kaiadas/Kaietas see D.M. MacDowell,
Spartan Law (Edinburgh 1986) 144-6, and further under
kappa 1212 and, especially,
kappa 1161.
Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; history; law
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 June 2001@04:43:11.
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