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Headword:
*)epi/klhros
Adler number: epsilon,2384
Translated headword: epikleros, heiress
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Whenever a girl is an orphan, without father or mother and also lacking brothers, and she happens to have property in her name, they call this girl an heiress; likewise [do they call] a girl who has already been married, whenever she is left [sc. widowed] on the entire property. For they also call the property a kleros ['allotment']. Also called an heiress is she who is not yet married but living with her father, inasmuch as the whole property is her due. They are called heiresses even if there are two or more. Some people call the heiress epiptamatis[1] and patrouchos.[2]
Greek Original:*)epi/klhros: o(/tan pai=s o)rfanh\ patro\s kai\ mhtro\s a)delfw=n te ou)=sa e)/rhmos, kai\ tau/th| tu/xh| u(pokeime/nh ou)si/a, tau/thn kalou=sin e)pi/klhron: o(moi/ws de\ kai\ th\n h)/dh gegamhme/nhn, o(/tan h)=| e)pi\ th=| ou)si/a| o(/lh| kataleleimme/nh. kalou=si ga\r kai\ th\n ou)si/an klh=ron. kalei=tai de\ e)pi/klhros kai\ h( mhde/pw gegamhme/nh, a)lla\ para\ tw=| patri\ ou)=sa, kaqo/ti kaqh/kei au)th=| pa=sa h( ou)si/a. kalou=ntai de\ e)pi/klhroi, ka)\n du/o w)=si ka)\n plei/ous. tine\s de\ th\n e)pi/klhron kalou=sin e)piptamati/da kai\ patrou=xon.
Notes:
'Heiress' is the conventional (if not wholly appropriate) English translation of the headword
epikleros, a technical term in classical Athenian law; literally she who comes with the plot, she who is attached to the estate. Surprisingly, Harpokration devoted no entry to the term. Instead, the present Suda entry (also in other lexica) derives from the
scholia on
Plato,
Laws 630E, where the terms
kleros and
epikleros occur; and the main section of the parallel
epsilon 2385 (q.v.) comes from
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Birds 1652-3, where again the term
epikleros occurs.
Besides
epsilon 2385, see also under
epsilon 2300,
eta 19,
kappa 178,
pi 803.
[1] Otherwise unattested.
[2] cf.
pi 799.
D.M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (London & Ithaca NY 1978) 95-108
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; gender and sexuality; law; philosophy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 November 2007@05:59:32.
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