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Headword: *dh/marxoi
Adler number: delta,421
Translated headword: tribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The people, having returned to their former good order, elected as tribunes Sicinnius and Brutus, who being invested with power equal to that of the consuls, wielded that authority for a year. They demagogued the masses with capricious policies.[1]
The demarchs [are] a constitutional term among the Athenians;[2] they were formerly called naukraroi, and they had the power to take pledges. And Pherekrates [says]: "a certain demarch came into the dance and dissolved it."[3] Those [who were] leaders deme by deme. These men used to arrange the festival of the Panathenaia.
Greek Original:
*dh/marxoi: o(/ti o( dh=mos ei)s th\n prote/ran e)panelqw\n eu)kosmi/an dhma/rxous ei(/leto *siki/nnion kai\ *brou=ton, oi(\ toi=s u(pa/tois ei)s to\ au)to\ th=s duna/mews kaqista/menoi e)niautw=| te tau/thn karpou/menoi th\n e)cousi/an, e)dhmagw/goun to\ plh=qos toi=s kaq' h(donh\n politeu/masin. o)/noma de\ politei/as oi( dh/marxoi para\ toi=s *)aqhnai/ois, oi( prw/hn nau/kraroi kalou/menoi: oi(=s e)ch=n e)nexura/zein. kai\ *ferekra/ths: u(pe/luse dh/marxo/s tis e)lqw\n ei)s xoro/n. oi( kata\ dh=mon a)/rxontes. ou(=toi de\ dieko/smoun th\n e(orth\n tw=n *panaqhnai/wn.
Notes:
[1] From an account of Roman history in the early C5 BCE. For L.Iunius Brutus and C.Sicinnius Vellutus (cross-referenced at sigma 397) see e.g. Plutarch, Coriolanus 7 and 13; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.89.1.
[2] The topic now shifts from Rome to Athens. On Athenian demarchs see already delta 420, and generally D.Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) chap.5A.
[3] Pherekrates fr. 171 Kock, now 182 K.-A.
Keywords: biography; comedy; constitution; definition; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law; politics; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 June 2003@12:56:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; supplied notes; augmented keywords) on 12 June 2003@03:54:54.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 9 October 2005@06:32:07.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 25 June 2012@08:32:57.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 26 December 2014@04:38:06.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 January 2015@19:45:52.

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