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Headword:
Archeia
Adler number: alpha,4089
Translated headword: archives
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning the place] where the public papers are deposited, a paper-preserve; or the places of the judges; alternatively [spelled]
a)rxai=a, as
Xenophon [does in book] 8 of
Histories.[1]
"He brought his sons into the speed-writing section of the ministry which dealt with archives."[2]
Archeia: entha hoi dêmosioi chartai apokeintai, chartophulakia: ê ta chôria tôn kritôn: ê archaia, hôs Xenophôn Historiôn ê#. tous de huieas periêgen es tên es tachos graphousan moiran tês peri ta archeia diakonias.
Notes:
[1] (Same material in other lexica.) Not the
Hellenica, as one might have supposed, but the
Cyropaedia (8.5.17 and 8.6.10 - note, though, that some editions print
a)rxei=a in both places).
[2] For "the speed-writing section" cf.
gamma 438, attributed to
Procopius.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 August 2001@06:31:51.
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