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Headword:
Archôn.
Archontes
Adler number: alpha,4119
Translated headword: archon (and) archons
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [There are] nine of them:[1] six thesmothetes,[2] archon [eponymous], king, polemarch.[3] And before the laws of
Solon they were not allowed to sit in judgment together; instead, the king sat by what was called the Herdsman's House [
Boukoleion], which was near to the Prytaneion; the polemarch [sat] in the Lyceum;[4] the archon at the [statues of the] Eponymoi, and the thesmothetes at the Thesmothesion. They were empowered to pronounce judgment on cases on their own authority. But after
Solon they had no other function besides interrogating the litigants.[5]
Archôn. Archontes: hoi ennea tines: thesmothetai hex, archôn, basileus, polemarchos. kai pro men tôn Solônos nomôn ouk exên autois hama dikazein, all' ho men basileus kathêsto para tôi kaloumenôi Boukoleiôi: to de ên plêsion tou Prutaneiou: ho de polemarchos en Lukeiôi, kai ho archôn para tous Epônumous, hoi thesmothetai para to Thesmothesion. kurioi te êsan hôste tas dikas autoteleis poieisthai. husteron de Solônos ouden heteron autois teleitai ê monon hupokrinousi tous antidikous.
Notes:
The primary headword, unglossed, is the nominative singular of this noun; the nominative plural is appended, which gives rise to the glossing (likewise or similarly done in other lexica.
[1] sc. in
Athens.
[2] cf.
theta 266 and (esp.)
theta 267.
[3] cf.
pi 1878 and (esp.)
pi 1879.
[4] ?
Aristotle,
Ath. Pol. 3.5 calls the place where the Polemarch sat the Epilyceum.
[5] No classical-period evidence supports the idea that the archons could interrogate litigants during the hearing-in-chief itself; rather, they passively presided over the lawsuits that came before them. It is very tempting to agree with Pearson that the transmitted
u(pokri/nousi should be
a)nakri/nousi, i.e. the archons conducted the
anakrisis or preliminary hearing -- which we know they did (see e.g. D.M. MacDowell,
The Law in Classical Athens (London & Ithaca NY, 1978) 239-242).
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 March 2002@14:09:57.
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