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Headword:
Thesmothetai
Adler number: theta,267
Translated headword: thesmothetai
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is a certain office at
Athens. Despite being six in number, [they come] from the so-called nine archons. They have this name because their task used to be the care of the laws.[1]
Aeschines in the [speech]
Against Ktesiphon has said that these men used to put right the laws every year.[2]
Greek Original:Thesmothetai: archê tis estin Athênêsin. hex de ontôn ton arithmon kaitoi ek tôn kaloumenôn th# archontôn. kalountai de houtôs, hoti tôn nomôn tên epimeleian eichon. hoti de tous nomous houtoi diôrthoun kat' eniauton hekaston, eirêken Aischinês en tôi kata Ktêsiphôntos.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Demosthenes 22.21.
See also
theta 266, and generally OCD(4) s.v.
[1] The explanation as it stands is a
non sequitur, an extra clause in Harpokration ("and they used to call laws statutes, thesmoi") being here omitted.
[2]
Aeschines 3.38. (Harpok. had also cited the
Nomoi of
Theophrastus: fr. 1 S-M = 632 Fortenbaugh.)
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 November 2000@06:50:35.
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