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Headword:
Arguris
thêkê
Adler number: alpha,3792
Translated headword: silver chest
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ['Silver chest'] and 'silver-bearing land' and 'gold-bearing [sc. land]', that which[1] when mined [yields] gold and silver. There were two kinds of mini-tablet which the Athenians used: one for writing on only for themselves, the other for depositing petty cash as well, which they used to call boxes or in other instances witnesses.[2]
Also 'silver-men' is what those with plenty of silver used to be called.[3]
Greek Original:Arguris thêkê kai Arguritis gê kai Chrusitis, hê ergazomenê chruson kai arguron. ditta ên grammatidia, hois echrônto Athênaioi, ta men hôste graphein monon heautois, ta de hôste kai arguridion katatithesthai, ha kai kibôtia ekaloun, ta d' alla marturia. kai Arguritai elegonto hoi arguriou euporountes.
Notes:
[1] This explanation obviously applies to the second and third (cf.
chi 571) of the opening phrases, not the first; the next sentence, on the other hand, returns to the opening phrase. (The entry as a whole conflates the one on
a)rguroqh/kh [sic] in Harpokration with other material.)
[2] So the transmitted text,
martu/ria; but where it occurs in the text of Harpokration Bekker proposed a plausible emendation:
marsi/pia ('pouches').
[3] Unattested, in this sense, outside lexicography.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 October 2000@02:59:18.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 23 August 2002@09:25:46.
William Hutton (added betacode, set status) on 24 June 2003@13:02:18.
William Hutton (corrected my own error, modified footnote 2) on 24 June 2003@15:41:42.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 June 2011@08:00:13.
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