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Headword:
*)arxairesi/a
Adler number: alpha,4078
Translated headword: magistrate-election
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] making a choice in respect of officials.
Also [sc. attested is the Ionic form]
a)rxairesi/h, [meaning] to live by the favour of the masses, or to make voluntary contributions of money.
Herodotus [sc. uses the word].[1]
*)arxairesi/a: peri\ a)rxw=n e)klogh/. kai\ *)arxairesi/h, to\ pro\s xa/rin pollw=n zh=n, h)\ to\ e)pido/seis xrhma/twn poiei=sqai. *(hro/dotos.
Notes:
Likewise in ps.-
Zonaras.
[1]
Herodotus 6.58.3 (web address 1 below), on the ten-day suspension of elections in
Sparta whenever a king dies. The
Herodotus passage, in other words, illustrates the first rather than the second of the two meanings of
archairesia given here. The second, albeit deriving from glosses on another passage in
Herodotus (6.58.3), reflects post-classical usage.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 April 2001@19:09:10.
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