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Headword: Talanton
Adler number: tau,34
Translated headword: talent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
As Diodorus says in On Weights,[1] it is 60 m[i]nai, and the m[i]na [is] 100 drachmas,[2] and the drachma [is] 6 obols, and the obol [is] 6 coppers, and the copper [is] 7 lepta.[3] But the talent [is] that which is now called Attic; among Sicilians the ancient [talent] was of 24 m[i]nai, but now [it is] 12.[4]
But Homer says: "two talents of gold."[5] So the talent of our time is not equal to that among the ancients. For it is set equal to a tripod and a kettle and a horse.[6]
But a talent in the divine Scripture is the divine grace sent from on high to each person.[7]
[sc. An example of the] construction [sc. of this word].[8] Aristophanes [writes]: "yet Hyperbolos learned this for a talent." That is, persuasive mystification.[9]
[Note] that in some [writers] a talent has 125 pounds.[10]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] talantiai=oi li/qoi ["stones weighing a talent"]. "The stones that were thrown were [stones] weighing a talent; but they were two or more stades distant. The impact was irresistible not only for who fell on it, but even more for those with them."[11]
Censuring Pericles, they fined him fifty talents.[12]
Greek Original:
Talanton: hôs phêsi Diodôros en tôi Peri stathmôn, mnôn estin x#, hê de mna drachmôn r#, hê de drachmê obolôn #2#, ho de obolos chalkôn #2#, ho de chalkous leptôn z#. to talanton de, to nun legomenon Attikon: para Sikeliôtais to men archaion ên mnôn kd#, nuni de ib#. ho de Homêros legei: duo chrusoio talanta. hôs mê einai ison to kath' hêmas talanton tôi para tois archaiois. hôs gar ison tou tripodos kai tou lebêtos kai tou hippou tithetai. Talanton de para têi theiai graphêi hê anôthen pempomenê hekastôi theia charis. suntaxis. Aristophanês: kaitoi talantou tout' emathen Huperbolos. toutesti chaunôsin anapeistêrian. hoti to talanton para tisin echei litras rke#. kai Talantiaioi lithoi. talantiaioi ge mên êsan hoi ballomenoi petroi: duo de kai pleon apêiesan stadious. hê plêgê d' ou tois prostuchousi monon, epipolu de kai tois met' ekeinous ên anupostatos. aitiômenoi de ton Periklea pentêkonta talantois ezêmiôsan.
Notes:
See also tau 31, tau 33.
[1] This is not the historian Diodorus Siculus but a later writer of the same (quite common) name.
[2] cf. mu 1144, mu 1145
[3] cf. omicron 7, chi 55.
[4] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.576.
[5] Homer, Iliad 18.507 (web address 1), repeated at 23.269; see next note.
[6] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 23.269.
[7] Cf. Matthew 25.15 ff. (web address 2). The TLG does not find a parallel to this comment.
[8] cf. (e.g.) mu 975, sigma 970, tau 283.
[9] Aristophanes, Clouds 875-6 (web address 3), with scholion; cf. alpha 2010, chi 151.
[10] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 758 (where the adjective 'five-talent' occurs).
[11] Josephus, Jewish War 5.270 (web address 4).
[12] cf. Diodorus Siculus 12.45.4; Plutarch, Pericles 35.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 January 2011@22:25:57.
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