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Headword: *zeugh/sion
Adler number: zeta,31
Translated headword: zeugesion
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the zeugite's rating.
Greek Original:
*zeugh/sion: to\ tou= zeugi/tou te/los.
Note:
The headword is a lexicographers' variant of zeugi/sion, for which see generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1), and esp. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.4: zeugi/sion...telei=n as one of the Solonian income-categories (quantified in terms of agricultural produce) in early C6 BCE Athens (iota 525, pi 972). A zeugite is variously understood as a small farmer with a yoke of oxen or else a citizen able to arm himself as a heavy infantryman (hoplite).
Reference:
D. Whitehead, 'The archaic Athenian zeugitai', Classical Quarterly n.s.31 (1981) 282-286
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; constitution; definition; economics; law; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 May 2005@21:46:46.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note, with bibliography; added a keyword) on 16 May 2005@03:34:34.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 4 December 2005@07:46:56.
Catharine Roth (raised status) on 4 December 2005@16:11:56.
David Whitehead on 29 November 2012@04:27:27.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 2 December 2012@00:35:35.
David Whitehead on 16 May 2015@07:28:24.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 16 May 2015@11:09:06.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 24 March 2016@05:19:07.

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