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Headword:
Astunomos
Adler number: alpha,4269
Translated headword: town-superintendent, astynomos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: There were ten astynomoi - five in
Peiraieus, five in [
Athens] town - whose business it was[1] to supervise both the girl-pipers and the girl-harpists, together with the dung-collectors and suchlike.[2]
Greek Original:Astunomos: deka êsan astunomoi, pente men en Peiraiei, pente de en astei, hois emelle peri te tôn aulêtridôn kai psaltriôn kai koprologôn kai tôn toioutôn.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's occurrence in
Demosthenes 24.112.
[1] The Greek here has been garbled, with
me/lein (Harpok.) turning into
e)/melle.
[2] The primary source (via Harpok.) is
Aristotle(?),
Athenaion Politeia 50.2 (web address 1); see also e.g. Demosth. 24.112, above (web address 2). For the dung-collectors cf.
alpha 2437.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; geography; history; law; meter and music; rhetoric; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@10:43:25.
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