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Headword: *)efe/tai
Adler number: epsilon,3877
Translated headword: ephetai, ephetae
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Men over 40 years of age,who have led good lives and possess judgment. They used to try homicide suits. Their law courts were called [the courts] of the ephetai.
Greek Original:
*)efe/tai: a)/ndres u(pe\r n# e)/th gegono/tes kai\ a)/rista bebiwke/nai u(po/lhyin e)/xontes: oi(\ kai\ ta\s fonika\s di/kas e)/krinon. e)kalei=to d' au)tw=n ta\ dikasth/ria e)fetw=n.
Notes:
Same or similar materal in other lexica; and see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.509).
As with e.g. Hellenotamiai (epsilon 841, epsilon 842, epsilon 843), the Suda's material on the ephetai comes in three contiguous entries: see also epsilon 3876 and epsilon 3878 (which contain more controversial statements than does the present one).
References:
D.M. MacDowell, Athenian Homicide Law (Manchester 1963), esp. chap.5
M. Gagarin, Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law (New Haven 1981)
E.M.Carawan, Rhetoric and the Law of Draco (Oxford 1998)
Keywords: constitution; definition; ethics; law
Translated by: Joseph Wrightson on 29 April 2000@17:20:54.
Vetted by:
Ross Scaife ✝ (added keyword) on 30 April 2000@22:48:15.
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and bibliography) on 20 September 2000@04:18:27.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 9 October 2005@07:13:06.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 14 August 2009@07:15:36.
David Whitehead (tweaking; raised status) on 19 November 2012@03:28:50.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 3 August 2014@09:06:26.

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