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Headword: *)obolostatei=
Adler number: omicron,9
Translated headword: weighs obols
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning [he/she/it] lends money.[1] Lysias [writes]: "not even if one were to calculate much less interest than these obol-weighing men exact from others".[2] Obol-weighers is what they used to call money-lenders, as Hyperides and comedy [make clear].[3]
Greek Original:
*)obolostatei=: a)nti\ tou= danei/zei. *lusi/as: ou)d' a)\n oi( polloi\ e)la/ttona to/kon logi/saito/ tis, h)\ o(/son ou(=toi o)bolostatou=ntes tou\s a)/llous pra/ttontai. e)/legon de\ o)bolosta/tas tou\s daneista/s, w(s *(uperi/dhs kai\ h( kwmw|di/a.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
[1] Third person singular, present, of o)bolostate/w; extracted, according to Harpok., from Lysias fr. 201 Sauppe (now 253 Carey OCT).
[2] Lysias fr. 156 Sauppe (now 209 Carey OCT), reading ei) polu\ e)la/ttona (as in Harpok.) rather than the oi( polloi\ e)la/ttona transmitted here.
[3] Hyperides fr. 181 Jensen. ("Obol-weigher" appears as omicron 10, with an unrelated gloss.)
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2000@03:05:38.
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Catharine Roth on 19 December 2001@00:16:55.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 17 September 2002@09:32:49.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 12 October 2006@08:37:21.
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