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Rhabdouchoi
Adler number: rho,3
Translated headword: staff-men, beadles, lictors
Vetting Status: high
Translation: There were certain staff-bearers at the hearth [sc. in the theater in classical
Athens], to keep the audience well-behaved. Or staff-bearers, [sc. meaning] the judges of the contest, [the ones] they call mediators.
Aristophanes [writes]: "if any comic poet came forward to the audience and praised himself, the staff-men should beat him."[1]
Polybius [writes]: "a lictor from the general appeared, summoning the king".[2]
Greek Original:Rhabdouchoi: êsan epi tês thumelês rhabdophoroi tines, pros eutaxian tôn theatôn. ê rhabdouchoi, hoi kritai tou agônos, hous aisumnêtas legousin. Aristophanês: chrên mentoi tuptein te rhabdouchous, ei tis kômôidopoiêtês auton epêinei pros to theatron parabas. Polubios: parên rhabdouchos para tou stratêgou, kalôn ton basilea.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; stagecraft
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 June 2004@05:07:43.
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