Ἀγορανομίας

market-supervisorship, market-supervisorships

Translated by William Hutton · 30 Oct 2000 · Vetting: high · 9 revisions

Translation

[Meaning] auditorship/s. The term is applied to those who oversee sales in the cities.¹
Also [sc. attested is the related concrete noun] "market-supervisors" [agoranomoi]: the officials who manage the sales in the marketplace [sc. in Athens].²
Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "as market-supervisors of the market I appoint the three who were chosen by lot, the thongs from Leprous."³ That is, straps, whips. For in olden days the auditors of the marketplace used to beat people with whips. And "leprous" [leprou/s] some explain as [sc. wordplay] from the verb lepein, that is, "to beat"; others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which Callimachus also mentions in the Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion."⁴ Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides of mangy cattle are tough. Still others because the Megarians, with whom he⁵ is making a treaty, have mangy bodies. But better to say that [sc. there is] a place called Leproi outside the [Athenian] town-center where the tanners' shops were. There is also a mention of this in Birds: "why then do you settle [in] Helian Lepreon."⁶
Also [sc. attested is the the verb] "I supervise markets" [a)goranomw=]; [used] with a genitive.

Greek original

Ἀγορανομίας· λογιστίας. εἴρηται δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπισκοπούντων τὰ τῶν πόλεων ὤνια. καὶ Ἀγορανόμοι, οἱ τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ὤνια διοικοῦντες ἄρχοντες. Ἀριστοφάνης Ἀχαρνεῦσιν· ἀγορανόμους δὲ τῆς ἀγορᾶς καθίσταμαι τρεῖς τοὺς λαχόντας, τοὺς δ' ἱμάντας ἐκ λεπρῶν. τουτέστι λώρους, φραγγέλια. τὸ γὰρ παλαιὸν φραγγέλοις ἔτυπτον οἱ λογισταὶ τῆς ἀγορᾶς. λεπρῶν δὲ οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ λέπειν, ὅ ἐστι τύπτειν· οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Λεπρέου πολίσματος τῆς Πελοποννήσου, ἧς μέμνηται καὶ Καλλίμαχος ἐν Ὕμνοις· Καυκώνων πτολίεθρον, ὃ Λέπρειον πεφάτισται. οἱ δὲ ἐκ λεπρῶν βοῶν, διὰ τὸ τὰ ἐκ λεπρῶν βοῶν δέρματα ἰσχυρὰ εἶναι. οἱ δὲ ὅτι οἱ Μεγαρεῖς λεπροὶ τὸ σῶμα, πρὸς οὓς σπένδεται. ἄμεινον δὲ λέγειν, ὅτι τόπος ἔξω τοῦ ἄστεος Λεπροὶ καλούμενος, ἔνθα τὰ βυρσεῖα ἦν. οὗ καὶ ἐν Ὄρνισι μέμνηται· τί δ' οὖν τὸν ἥλιον Λέπρεον οἰκίζετε. καὶ Ἀγορανομῶ· γενικῇ.

Notes (6)

The headword -- evidently extracted from somewhere -- and primary gloss are either genitive singulars or accusative plurals.
1Likewise in other lexica; references at Photius alpha228 Theodoridis. ↩
2From Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 24.112 and also citing ?Aristotle, Ath.Pol. 51.1. ↩
3Aristophanes, Acharnians 723-4 (web address 1), followed here by comment from the scholia there; cf. lambda 291. ↩
4Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 39. ↩
5Dikaiopolis, that is, the speaker of the quotation. ↩
6What seems to be a very mangled quotation from Aristophanes, Birds 150. A more correct quotation might be translated as "Why do you two not go and settle in Lepreon in Elis?" This would seem to be a reference to the Peloponnesian Lepreon and not to a Leproi outside Athens. See web address 2 below for the text of Aristophanes (and cf. lambda 288, lambda 289).

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External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from (1)

δ528Διάγραμμαregister

Neighbours in Adler order

α299Ἀγοράagora, assembly, market-place α300Ἀγοράζεινto frequent the market-place; to market α301Ἀγορὰ Κερκώπωνmarket of Kerkopes α302Ἀγορανομίαςmarket-supervisorship, market-supervisorships α303Ἀγοράςgatherings, markets α304Ἀγοράσαιto buy at market α305ἈγοράσωI will go to market

Revisions (9)

19 Apr 2020Catharine Rothremoved a link, added cross-references
18 Aug 2013David Whiteheadtweaks and cosmetics
6 Jan 2012Catharine Rothupgraded links
20 Jul 2011David Whiteheadaugmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics
9 Oct 2005David Whiteheadmore keywords
22 Dec 2002David Whiteheadrestorative cosmetics
30 Oct 2000David Whiteheadcosmetics; raised status
30 Oct 2000William Huttontranslated

Translation

Greek original

Notes (6)

The headword -- evidently extracted from somewhere -- and primary gloss are either genitive singulars or accusative plurals.

1Likewise in other lexica; references at Photius alpha228 Theodoridis. ↩

2From Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 24.112 and also citing ?Aristotle, Ath.Pol. 51.1. ↩

3Aristophanes, Acharnians 723-4 (web address 1), followed here by comment from the scholia there; cf. lambda 291. ↩

4Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 39. ↩

5Dikaiopolis, that is, the speaker of the quotation. ↩

6What seems to be a very mangled quotation from Aristophanes, Birds 150. A more correct quotation might be translated as "Why do you two not go and settle in Lepreon in Elis?" This would seem to be a reference to the Peloponnesian Lepreon and not to a Leproi outside Athens. See web address 2 below for the text of Aristophanes (and cf. lambda 288, lambda 289).