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Headword:
*stath/r
Adler number: sigma,1008
Translated headword: stater
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the coin [made] out of gold.[1]
"One of the pair of bags held obols [made] out of bronze, the other staters of gold, and they were much more like each other than the horses of
Eumelus."[2]
*stath/r: to\ e)k xrusou= no/misma. tw=n balanti/wn h( sunwri/s, to\ me\n ei)=xen o)bolou\s e)k xalkou=, to\ de\ stath=ras xrusi/ou, tw=n *eu)mh/lou i(/ppwn polu\ ma=llon a)llh/lois e)oiko/ta.
Notes:
[1] For staters -- 'a word used in some parts of the Greek world for a standard unit of weight, or for a coin which was the major unit in a series': John Melville Jones,
A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins (London 1986) 217 -- see also
kappa 2627,
sigma 1009.
[2]
Synesius,
Letter 127 p.262c Hercher (translation at web address 1). See also
tau 869. For the horses of
Eumelus (a pair of mares 'alike in coat and age') see
Homer,
Iliad 2.763ff, 23.287ff.
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Translated by: John Melville-Jones on 10 May 2003@08:55:30.
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