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Headword:
*mu/rioi
e)n
*megalopo/lei
Adler number: mu,1440
Translated headword: Ten Thousand in Megalopolis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes in the [speech]
Against Aeschines [sc. uses the phrase].[1] It is a common congress of all Arkadians, of which historians frequently make mention.[2]
Greek Original:*mu/rioi e)n *megalopo/lei: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kat' *ai)sxi/nou. sune/drio/n e)sti koino\n *)arka/dwn a(pa/ntwn, ou(= polla/kis mnhmoneu/ousin oi( i(storikoi/.
Notes:
From Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
For
Megalopolis, purpose-built federal capital of the Arcadian League, cf.
mu 368.
[1]
Demosthenes 19.11 (web address 1).
[2] Relevant literary sources cover the period 369-348. For a decree passed by this body (amongst others) in the 360s, see
Rhodes & Osborne no.32 (translated in Harding, no.51).
See generally Larsen 72-75, who doubts whether the number is to be taken literally (for this issue cf.
mu 1434). It probably represents in this instance all Arcadians of hoplite status or above.
P. Harding, From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus. (Cambridge 1985)
J.A.O. Larsen, Representative Government in Greek and Roman History. (Berkeley 1966)
P.J. Rhodes & R. Osborne, Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-323 BC. (Oxford 2003)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: constitution; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 September 2001@08:00:41.
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