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Headword:
*)/acones
Adler number: alpha,2833
Translated headword: axones, axles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is what Athenians called the laws of
Solon, because of the fact they had been inscribed on wooden axles. They were square in shape.
Demosthenes in the [speech]
Against Aristokrates mentions the word.[1]
Axones and
kyrbeis are different.[2]
Homer speaks of the 'axle' of a wagon.[3]
*)/acones: ou(/tws e)ka/lesan *)aqhnai=oi tou\s *so/lwnos no/mous, dia\ to\ e)ggrafh=nai au)tou\s e)n culi/nois a)/cosin. h)=san de\ tetra/gwnoi to\ sxh=ma. me/mnhtai th=s le/cews *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *)aristokra/tous. *)/acones de\ kai\ ku/rbeis diafe/rei. *)/acona de\ le/gei *(/omhros to\n th=s a(ma/chs.
Notes:
The first and principal part of this entry derives from Harpokration s.v.
a)/coni (sic: dative singular, from the
Demosthenes passage quoted -- see below).
The headword applies not only to the axles on which wheels, cones, etc. rotate, but, as we see here, to the objects rotating upon them, such as the tablets on which the law code of
Solon was inscribed at
Athens (OCD(4) p.217). See again at
nu 485 (end); also
kappa 2744.
[1]
Demosthenes 23.31.
[2] If so, it is not clear how (see the LSJ entries at web address 1 and web address 2).
Kurbeis were apparently triangular objects, while this entry asserts that
axones were square, but most authorities regard the two terms as interchangeable.
[3] So in e.g.
Homer,
Iliad 5.838.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 October 2000@10:17:57.
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