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Headword:
*xai/rwn
Adler number: chi,175
Translated headword: Chairon, Chaeron
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Spartan, who went on an embassy to Rome; a man both intelligent and practical, but young and of humble origins with a commonplace level of education. This man, pandering to the mob and innovating in ways nobody else had ventured, quickly acquired a successful image with the masses. And first of all he took away from the sisters and wives and mothers and children left behind by the tyrants the lands which the tyrants had given them, and gave it to the poor, at random and unfairly, as his own inclination dictated. After this, using public money as if it were his own, he spent the revenues, without reference to any law or community decree or official. At this [some people] were indignant and took steps to have themselves appointed auditors of the public funds, as the laws required. Seeing what had happened and conscious that he had misused city property, Chairon murdered Apollonidas, the most distinguished of the auditors and the one most capable of exposing his greed, as he returned during the daytime from his trip to the bath-house. The [Achaian] people were outraged at these events, and the general set off for
Sparta, where he put Chairon on trial for the murder of Apollonidas; and having secured his conviction he imprisoned him, while encouraging the remaining auditors to pursue their serious investigation of public affairs, and to see to it that the relatives of the exiles recovered the properties of which Chairon had recently robbed them.
*xai/rwn, *lakedaimo/nios, o(\s e)pre/sbeusen ei)s th\n *(rw/mhn, a)/nqrwpos a)gxi/nous me\n kai\ praktiko/s, ne/os de\ kai\ tapeino\s kai\ dhmotikh=s a)gwgh=s teteuxw/s. ou(=tos o)xlagwgw=n kai\ kinh/sas, o(\ mhqei\s e(/teros e)qa/rrei, taxe/ws periepoih/sato fantasi/an para\ toi=s polloi=s. kai\ to\ me\n prw=ton a)felo/menos th\n xw/ran, h(\n oi( tu/rannoi sunexw/rhsan tai=s u(poleifqei/sais tw=n tura/nnwn a)delfai=s kai\ gunaici\ kai\ mhtra/si kai\ te/knois, tau/thn die/dwke toi=s leptoi=s ei)kh= kai\ a)ni/sws kata\ th\n i)di/an e)cousi/an. meta\ de\ tau=ta toi=s koinoi=s w(s i)di/ois xrw/menos e)cedapa/na ta\s proso/dous, ou) no/mou stoxazo/menos, ou) koinou= do/gmatos, ou)k a)/rxontos. e)f' oi(=s a)ganakth/santes katesta/qhsan dokimasth=res tw=n koinw=n kata\ tou\s no/mous. o( de\ *xai/rwn qewrw=n to\ gino/menon kai\ suneidw\s au(tw=| kakw=s kexeiriko/ti ta\ th=s po/lews, to\n e)pifane/staton tw=n dokimasth/rwn *)apollwni/dhn, a)poporeuo/menon h(me/ras e)k balanei/ou e)ceke/nthse. tou= de\ plh/qous a)ganakth/santos e)pi\ toi=s gegono/sin, o( strathgo\s parageno/menos ei)s *lakedai/mona to\n *xai/rwna parh/gagen ei)s kri/sin u(pe\r tou= fo/nou tou= kata\ to\n *)apollwni/dhn kai\ katakri/nas e)poi/hse de/smion tou/s te loipou\s dokimasth=ras parw/cune pro\s to\ poiei=sqai th\n zh/thsin tw=n dhmosi/wn a)lhqinh/n, fronti/sai de\ kai\ peri\ tou= komi/sasqai ta\s ou)si/as tou\s tw=n fuga/dwn a)nagkai/ous pa/lin, a(\s o( *xai/rwn au)tw=n a)fei/leto braxei= xro/nw| pro/teron.
Note:
From
Polybius 24.7, on events of (?)180 BCE (see web address 1).
P. Cartledge and A. Spawforth, Hellenistic and Roman Sparta (London & New York 1989) 82-3
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, iii (Oxford 1979) 259-60
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; children; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law; military affairs; politics; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@03:40:23.
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