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Headword: *skuri/an di/khn
Adler number: sigma,714
Translated headword: Skyrian lawsuit, Skyros lawsuit
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Those making an excuse in [sc. Athenian] lawsuits used to claim that they were away in Skyros.[1]
For Skyros is an island.[2]
Greek Original:
*skuri/an di/khn: oi( skhpto/menoi e)n tai=s di/kais e)/faskon ei)s *sku/ron a)podhmei=n. *sku/ros ga\r nh=so/s e)sti.
Notes:
The headword phrase, in the accusative case, has been taken (on the strength of Pollux 8.1.) to be an unattributable comic fragment: Comica adespota fr. 902 Kock (now 808 K.-A.).
[1] (Likewise in Photius.) "Making an excuse", skepsis, was an Athenian legal procedure for avoiding liability for liturgies etc. See generally A.R.W. Harrison, The Law of Athens, ii (Oxford 1971) 233-6.
[2] In the central Aegean. For Skyros in the Suda see also alpha 4101, alphaiota 238.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; law
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 November 2001@04:13:52.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 27 February 2003@00:43:31.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 27 February 2003@03:18:31.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 27 February 2003@03:24:09.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 18 August 2011@09:00:37.
David Whitehead on 30 December 2013@04:32:26.
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