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Headword:
Triêrarchein
Adler number: tau,974
Translated headword: to be a trierarch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is the related noun] trierarchy, an expensive liturgy in
Athens. For it was necessary that a trireme have everything ready for war, and making these preparations was the task of the man appointed to this liturgy.
Aristophanes [writes]: "I will personally make you be a trierarch".[1]
Triêrarchein: kai triêrarchia, leitourgia para Athênaiois dapanêra. edei gar tên triêrê panta echein pros polemon eutrepê, haper pareskeuazen ho eis tên leitourgian tautên problêtheis. Aristophanês: egô se poiêsô triêrarchein.
Notes:
cf.
tau 975,
tau 976,
tau 977, and see generally Vincent Gabrielsen,
Financing the Athenian Fleet (Baltimore & London 1994)
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 912 (web address 1), preceded by comment from the
scholia there.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; economics; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 November 2001@05:56:00.
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