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Headword:
Archein
Adler number: alpha,4090
Translated headword: to hold office
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In more common parlance they[1] even used to call minor responsibilities and tasks "offices", and to have served on the council[2] [could be termed] "to have held office"; for [it is] a light responsibility.
Aristophanes [writes]: "does not the city then purposely appoint jurors to hold office?"[3]
Greek Original:Archein: koinoteron kai tas mikras epistasias kai leitourgias archas elegon, kai to bouleusai arxai: psilê gar epistasia. Aristophanês: oukoun dikastas exepitêdes hê polis archein kathistêsin.
Notes:
[1] The Athenians of the classical period.
[2] The Kleisthenic Council of 500 (
boule).
[3]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [Plutus] 916-917 (web address 1 below); again at
epsilon 1637. The
scholia on this passage supply the material of the present entry.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; law
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 April 2001@21:39:21.
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