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Headword:
*delfi/nion
Adler number: delta,206
Translated headword: Delphinion, Delphinium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is of course a place in
Chios;[1] but there is also a shrine of Apollo in
Athens so called, where the Delphinion lawcourt used to be.[2]
*delfi/nion: e)/sti me/ntoi xwri/on e)n *xi/w|: e)/sti de\ kai\ e)n *)aqh/nhsin i(ero\n *)apo/llwnos ou(/tw kalou/menon, e)/nqa h)=n to\ e)n *delfini/w| dikasth/rion.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., intially commenting on the appearance of the word in
Thucydides 8.38.2 (
Chios, web address 1) but going on to cite the Athenian one mentioned in
Demosthenes 40.11 (web address 2).
[1] Besides
Thucydides (above), see J. Boardman,
Annual of the British School at Athens 51 (1956) 41-49.
[2] It tried cases of homicide which, according to the accused, had been lawful or justifiable. See
Pausanias 1.28.5-11 (web address 3), with MacDowell chap.7.
D.M. MacDowell, Athenian Homicide Law (Manchester 1962)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: architecture; geography; historiography; history; law; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 October 2000@04:44:45.
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