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Headword:
Erêmê
dikê
Adler number: epsilon,2961
Translated headword: deserted lawsuit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. This term was used in classical
Athens] whenever the defendant had not appeared for trial and was condemned.[1] Compare also [sc. the phrase] "to be convicted in respect of a deserted [suit]".[2]
"Having convicted the man, as one might say, in respect of a deserted [suit], they drove him mad and accomplished something very greedy".[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "deserted grotto", [meaning] an isolated cave.[4]
Erêmê dikê: hotan mê apantêsas ho diôkomenos epi tên dikên katadikasthêi. homoion kai to, Erêmên halônai. erêmên, hôs an eipoi tis, ton andra helontes, exemênan te auton kai pleonektikôtaton apetelesan. kai Erêmaiên spêlunga, erêmikon spêlaion.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius (
Lexicon epsilon1910) and elsewhere, including several of the pareoemiographers. From the
scholia to
Plato,
Apology 18C, where the phrase occurs.
[2] Also (unglossed) in
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon1911; and, again, proverbial.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests
Aelian.)
[4] Linked by Gaisford, says Adler, with
Greek Anthology 6.217.2 (
e)rhmai/hn ... spila/da).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2003@05:52:31.
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