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Headword:
*laxw/n
Adler number: lambda,171
Translated headword: having obtained
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] having received one's portion/share.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "before having received [your assigned share] you gobble down what belongs to the public".[2] That is, before having [a share] assigned by lot, before being voted [a share],[3] in advance of a distribution served, you grab. The metaphor [comes] from people at dinners who grab before being served.
*laxw/n: klhrwsa/menos. *)aristofa/nhs: pri\n laxei=n ta\ koina\ katesqi/eis. toute/sti pri\n klhrwqh=nai, pri\n xeirotonhqh=nai, pro\ dianomh=s a(rpa/zeis. h( metafora\ a)po\ tw=n e)n toi=s dei/pnois a(rpazo/ntwn pro\ dianomh=s.
Notes:
See also
lambda 167,
lambda 170.
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 5.40, where the headword (aorist active participle of
lagxa/nw, masculine nominative singular) occurs.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 258, with comment from the
scholia there. Here the demagogue Kleon (see
kappa 1731) is being attacked verbally and physically by the chorus, who charge him with embezzlement.
[2] The scholiast carelessly equates here two different procedures in C5-BCE democratic
Athens: (random) sortition and (deliberate) voting. The first seems alien to us but had a high place in the Athenian democratic hierarchy of political values; cf.
kappa 1785,
kappa 1786.
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 11 January 2005@14:39:49.
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