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Headword:
Nemein
prostatên
Adler number: nu,166
Translated headword: to take a sponsor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning to have a sponsor; for each of the metics [sc. in classical
Athens] manages his own affairs in conjunction with a sponsor who is one of the citizens, and pays the metic-tax. And to have a sponsor is called to 'take' a sponsor.
Hyperides [writes]: "so that you must instruct those giving testimony of this kind and those producing [???] [not] to deceive you pointlessly, [if] they do not have stronger arguments to make; and compel them to produce for you the law which forbids taking a sponsor".[1]
Greek Original:Nemein prostatên: anti tou echein prostatên: tôn gar metoikôn hekastos meta prostatou tôn astôn tinos ta pragmata hautou sunôikei kai to metoikion katetithei. kai to echein prostatên kaleitai nemein prostatên. Huperidês: hôste keleusteon tous marturountas ta toiauta kai tous parechomenous matên apatan humas, mê tunchanôsi dikaiotera legontes: kai nomon hêmin anankazete parechesthai, ton keleuonta mê nemein prostatên.
Notes:
Keywords: constitution; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 October 2005@09:57:01.
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