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Headword:
Agathoklês
Adler number: alpha,117
Translated headword: Agathokles, Agathocles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man became tyrant [of Syracuse] and, as
Timaeus says, in his early youth was a common prostitute, ready [to give himself] to the most debauched, a jackdaw, a buzzard,[1] presenting his backside to all who wanted it. When he died, says [
Timaeus], his wife cried out to him in lamentation, "What [did] I not [carnally do to] you? And what [did] you not [reciprocate to] me?"[2] That nature had endowed Agathokles with great advantages is clear. For escaping the wheel, the smoke[of the kiln and] the clay,[3] he came to Syracuse, at about the age of eighteen, and in a short time, starting from such beginnings, he became master of the whole of
Sicily, exposed the Carthaginians to extreme dangers, and finally, having grown old in the role of dynast, ended his life with the title of king.[4]
Greek Original:Agathoklês: houtos egeneto turannos kai, hôs phêsi Timaios, kata tên prôtên hêlikian koinos pornos, hetoimos tois akratestatois, koloios, triorchês, pantôn tôn boulomenôn tois opisthen emprosthen gegonôs. hos hote apethane, tên gunaika phêsi kataklaiomenên auton houtô thrênein: ti d' ouk egô se; ti d' ouk eme su; hoti de ek phuseôs anankê megala proterêmata gegonenai peri ton Agathoklea, touto dêlon. eis gar tas Surakousas paregenêthê pheugôn ton trochon, ton kapnon, ton pêlon, peri te tên hêlikian oktôkaideka etê gegonôs, kai meta tina chronon hormêtheis hupo toiautês hupotheseôs, kurios men egenêthê pasês Sikelias, megistois de kindunois periestêse Karchêdonious, telos engêrasas têi dunasteiai, katestrepse ton bion basileus prosagoreuomenos.
Notes:
360-289 BCE; he ruled Syracuse from 317-289. See generally OCD(4) p.36, under
Agathocles(1).
The entry presents a semi-verbatim and mildly abridged extract from
Polybius (12.15.2-7: web address 1 below), who is in turn citing, disapprovingly,
Timaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566 F124b).
[1] On this passage K.J. Dover,
Greek Homosexuality (London 1978) p.103 writes: 'The jackdaw here probably sybolises impudence and shamelessness; the buzzard, in Greek
triorkhes, having three testicles, presumably symbolises insatiable lust, which is assumed to characterise the true
pornos'. Cf.
tau 995, where the first part of this quotation reappears.
[2] Probably Theoxene, the daughter or stepdaughter of
Ptolemy I Soter and the third wife of Agathokles. See F.W. Walbank,
A historical commentary on Polybius (Oxford, 1967) v.2 p.361.
[3] His father owned a large pottery. See
Diodorus 19.2.7; 20.63.4. As with equivalent figures in (e.g.) late-C5
Athens, such as Kleon, we see here the conceit that those whose wealth lay in manufacture would actually participate in (and be debased by) the actual manufacturing.
[4] Agathokles assumed the title of king in 305. See
Diodorus 20.54.1.
References:
Berve, H., Die Herrschaft des Agathokles (Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1953)
Agathokles(15) in RE 1.1 748-757
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; constitution; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; politics; trade and manufacture; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 February 2001@10:07:49.
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Headword:
Agasiklês
Adler number: alpha,169
Translated headword: Agasikles, Agasicles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. He is said to have bribed[1] the Halimousians, and for that reason, although he was a foreigner, to have been accorded [sc. Athenian] citizenship.[2]
Greek Original:Agasiklês: onoma kurion. hos legetai Halimousinois sundikasai kai dia touto xenos ôn engraphênai têi politeiai.
Notes:
After the initial generic gloss, this entry is abridged from Harpokration s.v.
[1] Reading
sundeka/sai for the transmitted
sundika/sai ("to share in judging"). See LSJ s.v.
sundeka/zw at web address 1; see also n. 1 to
alpha 1231.
[2] This is RE Agasikles 2; his claim to Athenian citizenship was contested in a speech by
Dinarchus.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; economics; ethics; history; law; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 7 June 1999@11:24:47.
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Headword:
Ageneia
Adler number: alpha,197
Translated headword: low birth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Bad birth.
Greek Original:Ageneia: hê dusgeneia.
Notes:
The headword literally means lack of birth. It is first attested in the
Politics of
Aristotle 6.1317b40 (web address 1 below) where
a)ge/neia,
peni/a and
banausi/a are the defining characteristics, from a hostile standpoint, of democracy.
Similar entry in
Hesychius, but in the accusative case and with the two nouns reversed.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: constitution; daily life; definition; ethics; philosophy; politics
Translated by: William Hutton on 17 October 2000@02:31:44.
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Headword:
Agnousios
Adler number: alpha,282
Translated headword: Hagnousian, Agnousian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [H]agnous is a deme of the [sc. Athenian] tribe Akamantis, the tribesman[1] from which [is a] [H]agnousian.
Greek Original:Agnousios: Agnous dêmos esti phulês tês Akamantidos, hês ho phuletês Agnousios.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v.
*a)gnou=s, commenting on the appearance of the demotikon (the present headword) in
Demosthenes 18.21.
On the deme Hagnous (the aspirated form appears to be the more authentic) see generally Traill (1975) 48, with Traill (1986) 132; Whitehead (1986) index s.v.
[1] A slip (already in Harpokration) for "demesman".
References:
J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975)
J.S. Traill, Demos and Trittys (Toronto 1986)
D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986)
Keywords: constitution; definition; geography; history; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 October 2000@03:33:18.
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Headword:
Agoranomias
Adler number: alpha,302
Translated headword: market-supervisorship, market-supervisorships
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] auditorship/s. The term is applied to those who oversee sales in the cities.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related concrete noun] "market-supervisors" [
agoranomoi]: the officials who manage the sales in the marketplace [sc. in
Athens].[2]
Aristophanes in
Acharnians [writes]: "as market-supervisors of the market I appoint the three who were chosen by lot, the thongs from Leprous."[3] That is, straps, whips. For in olden days the auditors of the marketplace used to beat people with whips. And "leprous" [
leprou/s] some explain as [sc. wordplay] from the verb
lepein, that is, "to beat"; others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which
Callimachus also mentions in the
Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion."[4] Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides of mangy cattle are tough. Still others because the Megarians, with whom he[5] is making a treaty, have mangy bodies. But better to say that [sc. there is] a place called Leproi outside the [Athenian] town-center where the tanners' shops were. There is also a mention of this in
Birds: "why then do you settle [in] Helian Lepreon."[6]
Also [sc. attested is the the verb] "I supervise markets" [
a)goranomw=]; [used] with a genitive.
Greek Original:Agoranomias: logistias. eirêtai de epi tôn episkopountôn ta tôn poleôn ônia. kai Agoranomoi, hoi ta kata tên agoran ônia dioikountes archontes. Aristophanês Acharneusin: agoranomous de tês agoras kathistamai treis tous lachontas, tous d' himantas ek leprôn. toutesti lôrous, phrangelia. to gar palaion phrangelois etupton hoi logistai tês agoras. leprôn de hoi men apo tou lepein, ho esti tuptein: hoi de apo Lepreou polismatos tês Peloponnêsou, hês memnêtai kai Kallimachos en Humnois: Kaukônôn ptoliethron, ho Lepreion pephatistai. hoi de ek leprôn boôn, dia to ta ek leprôn boôn dermata ischura einai. hoi de hoti hoi Megareis leproi to sôma, pros hous spendetai. ameinon de legein, hoti topos exô tou asteos Leproi kaloumenos, entha ta burseia ên. hou kai en Ornisi memnêtai: ti d' oun ton hêlion Lepreon oikizete. kai Agoranomô: genikêi.
Notes:
The headword -- evidently extracted from somewhere -- and primary gloss are either genitive singulars or accusative plurals.
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha228 Theodoridis.
[2] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on
Demosthenes 24.112 and also citing ?
Aristotle, Ath.Pol. 51.1.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 723-4 (web address 1), followed here by comment from the
scholia there; cf.
lambda 291.
[4]
Callimachus,
Hymn to Zeus 39.
[5] Dikaiopolis, that is, the speaker of the quotation.
[6] What seems to be a very mangled quotation from
Aristophanes,
Birds 150. A more correct quotation might be translated as "Why do you two not go and settle in Lepreon in Elis?" This would seem to be a reference to the Peloponnesian Lepreon and not to a Leproi outside
Athens. See web address 2 below for the text of
Aristophanes (and cf.
lambda 288,
lambda 289).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; comedy; constitution; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; law; medicine; poetry; rhetoric; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2000@00:03:30.
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Headword:
Agraphiou
Adler number: alpha,343
Translated headword: de-listing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A form of lawsuit against those in debt to the public treasury and written up for this, but erased before they paid it. So
Demosthenes[1] and
Dinarchus[2] and
Lycurgus.[3]
Greek Original:Agraphiou: eidos dikês kata tôn opheilontôn men tôi dêmosiôi kai dia touto engraphentôn, prinê de ektisai exaleiphthentôn. houtôs Dêmosthenês kai Deinarchos kai Lukourgos.
Notes:
Reference:
S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 105
Keywords: constitution; definition; economics; law; rhetoric
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 27 August 1998@18:31:04.
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Headword:
Agraphiou
dikê
Adler number: alpha,344
Translated headword: dike agraphiou, lawsuit about erasure
Vetting Status: high
Translation: When people owe [money] to the public treasury, as the result of a conviction, those in charge at the time about these matters write the debtors' names on notice-boards, appending how much the debt is [sc. in each case]. Whenever each one pays, the record is erased from the notice-board. So if someone is listed as owing money, but does not appear to have paid, and his name has been erased from the notice-board, any citizen who wishes may bring against him a lawsuit for erasure.
Greek Original:Agraphiou dikê: tôn ek katadikês ôphlêkotôn tôi dêmosiôi graphousi ta onomata en sanisin hoi kata kairon peri toutôn dioikountes, prostithentes ana poson esti to ophlêma. hotan de apodidôi hekastos, exaleiphetai tês sanidos to epigramma. ean oun tis anagraphêi men ôphlêkenai, doxêi de mê apodedôkenai, kai to onoma autou exêleimmenon êi ek tês sanidos, sunkechôrêtai tôi boulomenôi tôn astôn eisagein kat' autou dikên agraphiou.
Note:
Keywords: constitution; daily life; economics; law
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 27 August 1998@18:31:49.
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Headword:
Agroilêthen
Adler number: alpha,379
Translated headword: from-Agroile; Agryle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Agroile is a deme of the Erechtheid tribe [sc. in
Athens]. A demesman [sc. of this deme] used once to be called Agroileus ["Agroilian"].[1]
Greek Original:Agroilêthen: Agroilê dêmos esti phulês tês Erechtheïdos. ho de dêmotês palai elegeto Agroileus.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v. Agryle (sic - the Suda, besides transmitting an odd version of the deme-name itself, changes the headword from the deme-name to the demotikon, on which see n.1 below).
Agryle was one of the six instances of Athenian demes with "upper" and "lower" population centres: see generally D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) 21.
[1] An illusory piece of chronological information. What Harpok. actually says is: 'the demesmen [is an] Agryleus, but the locative adverb is Agrylethen. (And in fact, the latter is the regular demotikon also.)
Keywords: chronology; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 27 March 1999@17:35:00.
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Headword:
Agulaios
Adler number: alpha,384
Translated headword: Agylaios, Agylaeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Proper name.
Greek Original:Agulaios: onoma kurion.
Note:
That of a Spartan ephor mentioned in
Plutarch, Cleomenes 8.
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; geography; history
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 27 March 1999@17:57:27.
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Headword:
Adikiou
Adler number: alpha,486
Translated headword: misdemeanor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A sort of crime. It is the name of a lawsuit. It requires single payment, if it is returned before the ninth prytany; if not, the payment is double.
Greek Original:Adikiou: hoion adikêmatos. esti de onoma dikês. apotinnutai de touto haploun, ean pro tês enatês prutaneias apodothêi: ei de mê, diploun kataballetai.
Notes:
From the equivalent entry in Harpokration. Unusually, no primary source is cited there, but it is nevertheless recognizable as ?
Aristotle Athenaion Politeia 54.2.
As is regular in entries of this kind, the headword is in the genitive case, implying the noun
di/kh or (as in this instance)
grafh/.
Reference:
P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 599
Keywords: chronology; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; law
Translated by: David Mirhady on 20 May 1999@13:25:28.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (Added headword translation.) on 13 July 2000@23:44:19.
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and bibliography) on 29 September 2000@08:33:38.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 4 December 2005@06:45:15.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; cosmetics) on 20 July 2011@05:26:26.
Catharine Roth (expanded abbreviations) on 27 November 2014@23:20:41.
Headword:
Azênieus
Adler number: alpha,594
Translated headword: Azenieus, Azenia-man
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Azenia is a deme of the Hippothoontid tribe,[1] of which a tribesman[2] was called Azenieus.
They say that the people of Attica of ancient times pronounced Azenians and Erchians and Halians[3] and the like with a rough breathing: Polemon in the [writings] In response to Adaios and Antigonos[4].
Greek Original:Azênieus: Azênia dêmos esti phulês tês Hippothoôntidos, aph' hês ho phuletês Azênieus. kai Azênieis kai Erchieis kai Halieis kai panta ta homoia daseôs phasi phthengesthai tous Attikous tous palaious Polemôn en tois pros Adaion kai Antigonon.
Notes:
The headword is the demotikon (deme-name) for the small Attic deme Azenia. Source for this opening paragraph: Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's appearance in
Aeschines 3.139.
[1] For the tribal eponym
Hippothoon see
iota 558 (and OCD s.v.).
Strabo (9.398) appears to locate this deme at the southern tip of Attica, but his text is conventionally emended from Azenieis to Ateneis (
Der kleine Pauly, 1. Stuttgart 1964, s.v.); if that is correct, little evidence remains for locating Azenia (though J.S. Traill,
Demos and Trittys (Toronto 1986) 137 with n.40 makes a tentative suggestion).
[2] An error (also in some other entries of this kind) for demesman.
[3] Erchia and
Halai are two other demes in Attica. E. belonged to the Aegeid tribe,
Halai to either Aigeis (H. Araphenides) or Kekropis (H. Aixonides). See generally J.S. Traill,
The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) appendix D, at p.124.
[4] Polemon fr.65 Preller. Polemon's book of this name is a diatribe against Adaios and Antigonos, writers about art and crafts at the court of King
Attalus. (For Adaios (
alpha 431) of
Mytilene see
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.606A-B (13.84 Kaibel);
Der Kleine Pauly, 4, Munich 1972 s.v. Polemon(4) and Adaios(3).)
References:
E. L. von Leutsch and F.G. Schneidewin, (eds) Corpus Paroemigraphorum Graecorum. Goettingen 1839-51
C.W.J. Eliot, Coastal Demes of Attika (Toronto 1962) 125-6
D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v.
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Carl Widstrand on 2 February 2000@11:38:43.
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Headword:
Azêtêton
Adler number: alpha,598
Translated headword: uninvestigated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning]that which is prevented from undergoing investigation and prosecution. Thus
Aeschines [sc. uses the word].
Greek Original:Azêtêton: to zêtêsin kai katêgorian echein kekôlumenon. houtôs Aischinês.
Note:
From Harpokration s.v., commenting on the appearance of this neuter singular in
Aeschines 3.22: "there is nothing in all the polis which is
a)nupeu/qunon de\ kai\ a)zh/thton kai\ a)nece/taston". Also in
Photius.
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; law; rhetoric
Translated by: Carl Widstrand on 12 January 2000@18:23:15.
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Headword:
Athênaia
Adler number: alpha,728
Translated headword: Athenaia, Athenaea
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A variant term for] the goddess [Athena], but [sc. also] a woman citizen [of
Athens].
Greek Original:Athênaia: hê thea, hê de gunê astê.
Notes:
Same entry (lacking, Adler reports, in ms M) in
Hesychius and elsewhere.
For both these senses see again under
alpha 729.
Keywords: constitution; definition; geography; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 December 1999@15:36:56.
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Headword:
Athmôneus
Adler number: alpha,743
Translated headword: Athmoneus, Athmonian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Athmonia[1] is a deme of the Kekropid [sc. tribe in
Athens]; the demesman from it [is] an Athmoneus.
Also [sc. attested is] Athmonis, a proper name.[2]
[See] the
Peiraieus; peaks - the high ones; bowl.[3]
Greek Original:Athmôneus: Athmônia dêmos esti phulês tês Kekropidos, aph' hou ho dêmotês Athmôneus. kai Athmônis, onoma kurion. ton Peiraia karêna ta akra trublion.
Notes:
[1] More commonly and exactly, Athmonon. (Present-day Amarousi.) See D. Whitehead,
The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v. This part of the entry reproduces Harpokration s.v. (where however the headword is correctly
*)aqmoneu/s, with omicron).
[2] Unattested outside lexicography.
[3] Respectively
pi 1455,
kappa 379 and
tau 1089. The point of these cross-references (marginal additions in some manuscripts) is obscure.
Reference:
J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 50
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 February 2000@22:09:58.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and bibliography) on 19 September 2000@04:54:11.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; restorative and other cosmetics) on 22 May 2002@11:40:10.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 May 2009@09:45:54.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 July 2011@06:42:37.
Catharine Roth (betacode cosmetics) on 21 January 2012@12:25:17.
Headword:
Athroi
katarreontes
Adler number: alpha,762
Translated headword: (they) flowing down in a body
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [doing so] together. The noun should have proparoxytone accent and the first syllable should be aspirated in the Attic dialect. "Flowing down" [
katarre/ontes] meaning descending suddenly. The metaphor [comes] from river currents.
Homer [writes]: "the bands of foot-soldiers flowed on."[1]
Greek Original:Athroi katarreontes: anti tou homou. proparoxunein de dei to onoma kai dasunein tên prôtên sullabên Attikôs. katarreontes de anti tou athroôs katerchomenoi. hê de metaphora apo tôn potamiôn rheumatôn. Homêros: ta d' eperreen ethnea pezôn.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 26, where the headword phrase (in the nominative masculine plural, referring to the Athenian prytaneis [
pi 3000]) occurs; see web address 1 below.
See also
alpha 758,
alpha 759. There is testimony for the rough breathing and for the accent on the first syllable: see LSJ (web address 2).
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 11.724 (web address 3).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 February 2000@11:24:25.
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Headword:
Akamantis
kai
Akamas
Adler number: alpha,791
Translated headword: Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Akamantis is] one of the ten [Athenian] tribes, [named] from Akamas the son of Theseus [1].
Greek Original:Akamantis kai Akamas: mia tôn deka phulôn apo Akamantos tou Thêseôs.
Notes:
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. Akamantis.
[1] cf.
Pausanias,
Description of Greece 1.5.2. For Theseus see
theta 364.
Reference:
OCD(4) s.v. 'Acamas' and 'eponymoi'
Keywords: aetiology; constitution; definition; mythology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 January 2000@05:28:33.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and bibliography) on 19 September 2000@05:17:59.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 June 2011@08:55:40.
David Whitehead (updated refs) on 30 July 2014@03:42:19.
Headword:
Akompson
Adler number: alpha,921
Translated headword: unadorned
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] mean, ineffectual.
"A man [...] who had ascended the tribunals of the praetor; among Romans this office [is] not an unadorned one."[1]
Greek Original:Akompson: euteles, apanourgon. andra tôn tou praitôros epibanta bêmatôn: archê de tis hautê para Rhômaiois ouk akompsos.
Notes:
The headword is neuter singular of this adjective, evidently quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given, where it is masculine/feminine singular). Under the same lemma
Photius,
Lexicon alpha791 Theodoridis, begins with the second of these glosses but then turns to different material and cites a fragment of
Euripides.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 1.4.6 (here abridged); cf. ps.-
Zonaras p.110.
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; tragedy
Translated by: Clayton Lehmann on 20 October 2000@14:56:03.
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Headword:
Akribôthêsetai
Adler number: alpha,982
Translated headword: will be made precise
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Meaning] will be thought over precisely.
Aristophanes [writes]: "he/she will not even put one foot in front of the other, unless it will be made precise."[1]
Greek Original:Akribôthêsetai: akribôs meletêthêsetai. Aristophanês: oud' an probaiê ton poda ton heteron, ei mê taut' akribôthêsetai.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 162 (cf. 274), with comment from the
scholia there. (
Aristophanes' text actually has the first person. Praxagora says she will not be participating in the assembly unless all be arranged exactly in advance. See web address 1.)
For the verb cf.
alpha 981.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; women
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 10 June 2000@20:02:11.
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Headword:
Halimousios
Adler number: alpha,1231
Translated headword: Halimousian, Halimusian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Halimous is a deme of [the Athenian tribe] Leontis. Agasikles is said to have bribed the Halimousians[1] and because of this, although a foreigner, was registered in the citizen body[2].
Greek Original:Halimousios: Halimous dêmos esti tês Leontidos. legetai ho Agasiklês tois Halimousiois sundikasai kai dia touto xenos ôn engraphênai têi politeiai.
Notes:
[1] The transmitted text uses the verb
sundika/zein (join in judging), but it should be emended, both here and in
alpha 169 (and Harpokration s.v.
Agasikles), to
sundeka/zein, literally to bribe en masse (for which, as LSJ note,
sundika/zein is a common error).
[2] This occurred at some time between 336 and 324 BC, and led to Agasikles being impeached. See generally M.H.Hansen,
Eisangelia (Odense 1975) no.115; D.Whitehead,
The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) 293,294.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 May 2000@14:22:09.
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Headword:
Halistheisês
Adler number: alpha,1249
Translated headword: having been mustered
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] having been assembled.
Greek Original:Halistheisês: sunathroistheisês.
Notes:
cf. generally
alpha 1248; also
eta 247,
sigma 1432,
sigma 1557.
The present headword -- similarly glossed in
Hesychius (alpha3043); evidently quoted from somewhere -- is an aorist passive participle in the feminine genitive singular; the noun implicit will be something like
strati/a (army),
e)kklhsi/a (assembly), or -- as three times in Evagrius -- synod.
Keywords: Christianity; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; politics; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2000@23:03:03.
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Headword:
Alkimachos
Adler number: alpha,1282
Translated headword: Alkimakhos, Alkimachos, Alcimachus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man is a general, from the deme Anagyrous.[1] Another is the Macedonian, whom
Hyperides mentions.[2]
Greek Original:Alkimachos: stratêgos estin houtos Anagurasios tôn dêmôn. heteros de estin ho Makedôn, hou mnêmoneuei Huperidês.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Demosthenes 47.50 & 78.
[1] R. Develin,
Athenian Officials 684-321 B.C. (Cambridge 1989) no.88: attested as an Athenian general (strategos) three times between 364 and 354 BCE. For the deme Anagyrous, see
alpha 1842.
[2]
Hyperides fr. 77 Jensen (from the lost speech
Against Demades, as Harpok. shows). He became an honorary citizen of
Athens in ca.336 BCE.: Tod,
Greek Historical Inscriptions no.180.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 May 2000@23:10:23.
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Headword:
Alogiou
dikê
Adler number: alpha,1313
Translated headword: prosecution for lack of accounting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A prosecution[1] in which the defendants are officials, (prosecuted for) not giving an account[2] of the sums of money administered during the tenure of their office.
Greek Original:Alogiou dikê: hên pheugousin hoi archontes logon ou didontes tôn tês archês dioikêmatôn.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius and other lexica. Latte on
Hesychius s.v. suggests that the source (or prompt) might be
Eupolis fr. 349 Kock, now 377 K.-A.:
kai\ ga\r ai)sxro\n a)logi/ou 'st' o)flei=n, "for it is shameful to be convicted of lack of accounting".
[1] The word used here is dike, a general one for any kind of Athenian lawsuit. In fact the procedure was a "public" lawsuit, a graphe, which any concerned citizen could bring. See generally on the graphe alogiou A.R.W. Harrison,
The Law of Athens, vol.2 (Oxford 1971, reprinted London & Indianapolis 1998) 28-30.
[2] In the technical sense: submitting income and expenditure records for scrutiny.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 May 2000@12:53:18.
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Headword:
All'
ou
lachous'
epines
en
tôi
grammati
Adler number: alpha,1356
Translated headword: so did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. ["Drink"] meaning served as a juror. For the Athenians were allotted [to juries] by letter from the 10 tribes. For example, the first [tribe] had
alpha as its symbol, the second
beta, as far as
kappa. For with there being 10 tribes, there were 10 jurors [sc. per cycle]. So the man drawing the
alpha was the first to be a juror, and the others likewise. So perhaps you, he is saying, had [a letter] allotted but you did not act as a juror; instead, you drank.
Greek Original:All' ou lachous' epines en tôi grammati: Aristophanês. anti tou edikazes. hoi gar Athênaioi kata gramma eklêrounto apo tôn i# phulôn. hoion hê prôtê to a# eiche sêmeion, hê deutera to b#, mechri tou k#. i# gar phulôn ousôn i# eginonto dikastai. ho oun lachôn to a# prôtos edikaze kai hoi alloi homoiôs. tacha oun su, phêsi, lachousa ouk edikazes, all' epines.
Note:
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 972, with scholion. (The participle
laxou=sa is feminine because Chremes is talking to, and about, a woman.)
Reference:
M.H. Hansen, Athenian Democracy (Oxford 1991) 197-199, esp. 198, drawing on ?Aristot. Ath.Pol. 63-64.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 May 2000@11:59:25.
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Headword:
Halô
Adler number: alpha,1371
Translated headword: convicted
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. This verb is used] with a genitive of possession; "if someone is arrested after being convicted of maltreatment of his parents."[1]
And "if someone is convicted of making an illegal proposal or of theft."[2]
Greek Original:Halô: kata peripoiêsin genikêi: ean de tis epachthêi tôn goneôn kakôseôs hêlôkôs. kai ean de tis halô paranomôn ê klopês.
Notes:
[1] From an Athenian law quoted in
Demosthenes 24.105. For the suit concerned, see generally S.C. Todd,
The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 107-8 (and
kappa 178).
[2] An inexact version of
Demosthenes 24.103 (web address 1), which mentions only theft. For the suits concerned, see generally Todd 108. The aorist subjunctive of
a(li/skomai should be spelled with an iota subscript in the third person singular:
a(lw=|.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: constitution; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; law; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 June 2000@12:12:43.
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Headword:
Amôntianos
Adler number: alpha,1642
Translated headword: Amontianos, Amontianus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Roman, [who] became a senator.
Greek Original:Amôntianos: Rhômaios, sunklêtikos gegonôs.
Note:
The name, without the information, is also in ps.-
Zonaras. Unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; constitution; geography; politics
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@14:47:19.
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