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Headword: *)/apoina
Adler number: alpha,3716
Translated headword: ransom, ransom-monies
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] payments, which someone gives for a body, dead or alive.[1] Thus Solon in [his] laws [sc. uses the word].[2]
Greek Original:
*)/apoina: lu/tra, a(\ di/dwsi/ tis u(pe\r fo/nou h)\ sw/matos. ou(/tws *so/lwn e)n no/mois.
Notes:
Same or similar material in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.13, where the (neuter plural) headword occurs.
As well as numerous other insrances in the Iliad, see also e.g. Herodotus 6.79.1, and generally LSJ s.v., and W.K. Pritchett, The Greek State at War V (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1991) 245-297.
[1] Literally "for a murder or a body"; the latter has to be alive if the distinction is to make any sense.
[2] Solon fr. 12 Ruschenbusch.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; epic; ethics; historiography; law; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 June 2001@07:32:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords) on 24 June 2001@08:01:21.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 13 December 2005@05:33:23.
David Whitehead (augmented and tweaked notes; cosmetics) on 9 April 2012@09:13:33.
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