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Headword: *sitofu/lakes
Adler number: sigma,505
Translated headword: grain-guardians
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A particular official position at Athens, responsible for seeing that grain was sold at a fair price, and barley-groats and bread too. In number they were fifteen in town and five in Peiraieus.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the term] grain-guardpost.[2]
Greek Original:
*sitofu/lakes: a)rxh/ tis h)=n *)aqh/nhsin, h(/tis e)pemelei=to, o(/pws o( si=tos dikai/ws praqh/setai kai\ ta\ a)/lfita kai\ oi( a)/rtoi. h)=san de\ to\n a)riqmo\n ie# me\n e)n a)/stei, e# de\ e)n *peiraiei=. kai\ *sitofulakei=on.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., glossing Dinarchus fr. XIX.10 Conomis.
[1] The first of these figures (from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 51.3, via Harpok.) has become corrupted in transmission: read "in number they were ten, five in town and ...". See web address 1.
[2] cf. under sigma 564, chi 143.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; constitution; definition; economics; ethics; food; geography; historiography; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@06:23:39.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 16 December 2004@19:01:02.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 17 December 2004@03:22:23.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 7 October 2005@09:57:29.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 30 November 2005@10:17:39.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; another note) on 1 January 2008@09:03:31.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 14 July 2011@06:54:28.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2013@06:17:02.
David Whitehead on 26 May 2016@03:42:45.

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