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Headword:
Epikekêruchenai
Adler number: epsilon,2360
Translated headword: to have proclaimed a price on someone's head
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Whenever a city or a ruler wanted someone outside their control to be done away with, an announcement used to be made promising money to the man who did away with him or took him alive; an example is the proclamation of the Greeks to the effect that they would give 100 talents to the man who brought Xerxes to
Athens, whether alive or dead.
Epikekêruchenai: hopote bouloito polis ê archôn anairethênai tina tôn mê huph' heautois, ekêrutte dôsein chrêmata tôi anelonti ê kai zônta prosagagonti: katha kai Xerxên epekêruxan hoi Hellênes tôi katagagonti ê zônta ê tethnêkota Athênaze r# dôsein talanta.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on the appearance of the headword -- a perfect infinitive -- in
Demosthenes 19.22 (cf. 35, 74): D. claims that the Thebans had done this to
Aeschines.
On Xerxes, king of Persia, see generally
xi 54.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2000@06:13:51.
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