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Headword:
Epidika
Adler number: epsilon,2298
Translated headword: (things) disputed at law
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] to which someone would lay a legal claim, on the basis that they belong to him by right of succession[1] -- provided the deceased had no sons or grandsons: these things are called disputed at law.
Greek Original:Epidika: hois an tis epedikazeto, hôs prosêkousin autôi kata genous anchisteian, ei mê eien huieis ê huiônoi tôi teteleutêkoti, mête mên diathêkai, tauta epidika kaleitai.
Notes:
The neuter plural headword is evidently quoted from somewhere, probably Attic oratory. In in event the entry resembles what
Lexica Segueriana 184.1-2 says s.v.
a)nepi/dika ('they call
epidika the things that are legally disputed amongst relatives'); cf.
alpha 2292.
cf. generally
epsilon 2299.
[1] For this concept -- literally nearness (of kin) -- see
alpha 407,
alpha 408,
alpha 409.
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 October 2007@08:59:26.
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