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Headword: Axion
Adler number: alpha,2813
Translated headword: proper; cheap
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The orators apply [this] to what is sensible and just.[1] Demosthenes [writes]: "for on account of this especially it is proper to be silent, when there is neither someone bullying, nor someone who is going to punish you".[2] They assign [the word] axion also to purchases, whenever something is sold at a good price.[3] Lysias in the [oration] Against the Corn-dealers [writes]: "they will say that they buy the corn out of good-will towards the city, so that they can sell it to you as cheaply as possible."[4] And elsewhere: "if then you vote to convict them, you will do the just thing and you will buy your corn cheaper; if not, [it will be] more expensive".[5]
Greek Original:
Axion: hoi rhêtores epi tou eulogou kai dikaiou eklambanousi. Dêmosthenês: dia gar touto malista axion esti siôpan, hot' out' estin ho kataplêssôn, outh' ho kolasôn humas. tassousi de to axion kai epi tôn ôniôn, hotan euônon ti pipraskêtai. Lusias en tôi kata tôn sitopôlôn: erousin hôs ep' eunoiai tês poleôs ônountai ton siton, hin' hôs axiôtaton humin pôlôsi. kai palin: ean oun autôn katapsêphisêsthe, ta te dikaia poiêsete kai axiôteron ton siton ônêsesthe: ei de mê, timiôteron.
Notes:
[1] cf. alpha 2815; there too the headword is neuter singular of this adjective.
[2] A fragment (no.5) of one of Demosthenes' lost orations (no.13 in Baiter-Sauppe). The Suda's 'you' should perhaps be 'us'. (cf. n.4 below.)
[3] cf. alpha 2814.
[4] Lysias 22.11 (web address 1). The Suda's "to you" should read "to us", a frequent manuscript confusion between two Greek words which differ by just one letter.
[5] Lysias 22.22 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; history; law; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@05:49:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 30 November 2000@08:16:44.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 August 2002@09:55:00.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 30 November 2005@10:03:53.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 28 March 2008@08:27:03.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 21 March 2012@07:15:05.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 2 August 2015@05:01:11.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 31 August 2015@23:41:27.

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