"He who controls what is not-voted-for in an inquiry completes the entire indictment."
Apsêphiston: ho katechôn to apsêphiston en gnôsei epitelei pasan tên graphên.
See web address 1 below for the LSJ entry on this word. It gives two instances: (i) from
Aristophanes,
Wasps 752, where an
apsephistos is a juror who has not yet cast his vote, and (ii) from the
Sententiae of
Secundus (C2 CE), where poverty which is figuratively speaking not-voted-for is unwelcome. The present quotation (repeated at
psi 83) seems more akin to i than to ii, but the object is impersonal, and the overall import obscure.
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