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Headword:
*)epista/tis
Adler number: epsilon,2616
Translated headword: chairwoman, lady president
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Feminine.[1] A particular office, established to advise on war or peace or something else.
Aristophanes in
Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "Timokleia in the chair, Lusilla as secretary".[2]
And
Sophocles [writes]: "to presidents of flocks". That is, to the dogs.[3]
Dio Coccianus says: "the elephants, vexed by the towers, would no longer tolerate even the drivers themselves".[4]
*)epista/tis: qhlukw=s. a)rxh/ tis, h(/tis a)nistame/nh sumbouleu/ei peri\ pole/mou h)\ ei)rh/nhs h)\ a)/llou tino/s. *)aristofa/nhs *qesmoforiazou/sais: *timo/klei' e)pista/tei: *lu/sill' e)gramma/teue. kai\ *sofoklh=s: poimni/wn e)pista/tais. toute/sti toi=s kusi/. *di/wn de\ o( *kokkiano\s le/gei: oi( de\ e)le/fantes a)xqo/menoi toi=s pu/rgois ou)d' au)tou\s e)/ti tou\s e)pista/tas e)/feron.
Notes:
[1] For the masculine see
epsilon 2612. (The rare feminine version does not actually occur in any of the passages quoted here.)
[2]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 373-4 (parodying the preamble of an Athenian decree) with scholion. The reading here should be
e)pesta/tei (imperfect of the verb
e)pistate/w: cf.
epsilon 2086). See web address 1.
[3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 27 (web address 2) with scholion.
[4]
Cassius Dio 73.16.3 (from his eye-witness account of the over-the-top spectacles at the end of the reign of Commodus). For this sense of
epistates cf. e.g.
Polybius 1.40.11.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 July 2006@07:27:36.
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