Ἀπεψηφίσατο
voted off
Translated by David Whitehead · 6 Oct 2000 · Vetting: high · 10 revisions
Translation
That is [he/she/it] condemned.1 "The council reached its judgement on what had been done and voted the fellow off, since the taint of guilt had occurred with him not attacking but defending himself".2
And elsewhere: "two of the generals fled before the verdict, but Konon they voted off."3 Meaning they rejected after scrutiny.
Also [sc. attested is the perfect participle] 'voted-off men': in the demes votings-off were held of those whose names were in the deme register[s] but who were not Athenians but mis-enrolled as citizens; and these men were called voted-off men, since as a result of a vote on them that had been called they no longer had citizen rights. Hyperides in the [speech] Against Aristogeiton [writes]: "that in the first place more than 150,000 [slaves], the ones in the silver mines and those in the rest of Attica; then the public debtors and the disfranchised and the voted-off men and the colonists" [sc. should all be mobilized].4
And elsewhere: "two of the generals fled before the verdict, but Konon they voted off."3 Meaning they rejected after scrutiny.
Also [sc. attested is the perfect participle] 'voted-off men': in the demes votings-off were held of those whose names were in the deme register[s] but who were not Athenians but mis-enrolled as citizens; and these men were called voted-off men, since as a result of a vote on them that had been called they no longer had citizen rights. Hyperides in the [speech] Against Aristogeiton [writes]: "that in the first place more than 150,000 [slaves], the ones in the silver mines and those in the rest of Attica; then the public debtors and the disfranchised and the voted-off men and the colonists" [sc. should all be mobilized].4
Greek original
Ἀπεψηφίσατο· τουτέστι κατεδίκασεν. ἡ δὲ βουλὴ τὴν διάγνωσιν ποιουμένη τῶν πεπραγμένων ἀπεψηφίσατο τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ἐπεὶ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐπελθόντος ἀλλ' ἀμυνομένου τὸ μίασμα γέγονε. καὶ αὖθις· τῶν δὲ στρατηγῶν δύο μὲν ἔφυγον πρὸ κρίσεως, Κόνωνος δὲ ἀπεψηφίσαντο. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπεδοκίμασαν. καὶ Ἀπεψηφισμένοι· ἐπὶ τοῖς δήμοις ἀποψηφίσεις ἐγίνοντο τῶν γεγραμμένων μὲν εἰς τὸ ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖον, οὐκ ὄντων δὲ ἀστῶν, ἀλλὰ παρεγγεγραμμένων εἰς τὴν πολιτείαν· καὶ οὗτοι ἐλέγοντο ἀπεψηφισμένοι, ἐπειδὴ ψήφου περὶ αὐτοῖς ἐπαχθείσης οὐκέτι μετεῖχον τῆς πολιτείας. Ὑπερίδης ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ἀριστογείτονα· ὅπως πρῶτον μὲν μυριάδας πλείους ἢ ιεʹ, τοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἔργων τῶν ἀργυρείων καὶ τοὺς κατὰ τὴν ἄλλην χώραν· ἔπειτα τοὺς ὀφείλοντας τῷ δημοσίῳ καὶ τοὺς ἀτίμους καὶ τοὺς ἀπεψηφισμένους καὶ τοὺς ἀποίκους.
Betacode
*)apeyhfi/sato: toute/sti katedi/kasen. h( de\ boulh\ th\n dia/gnwsin poioume/nh tw=n pepragme/nwn a)peyhfi/sato tou= a)nqrw/pou, e)pei\ au)tou= ou)k e)pelqo/ntos a)ll' a)munome/nou to\ mi/asma ge/gone. kai\ au)=qis: tw=n de\ strathgw=n du/o me\n e)/fugon pro\ kri/sews, *ko/nwnos de\ a)peyhfi/santo. a)nti\ tou= a)pedoki/masan. kai\ *)apeyhfisme/noi: e)pi\ toi=s dh/mois a)poyhfi/seis e)gi/nonto tw=n gegramme/nwn me\n ei)s to\ lhciarxiko\n grammatei=on, ou)k o)/ntwn de\ a)stw=n, a)lla\ pareggegramme/nwn ei)s th\n politei/an: kai\ ou(=toi e)le/gonto a)peyhfisme/noi, e)peidh\ yh/fou peri\ au)toi=s e)paxqei/shs ou)ke/ti metei=xon th=s politei/as. *(uperi/dhs e)n tw=| pro\s *)aristogei/tona: o(/pws prw=ton me\n muria/das plei/ous h)\ ie#, tou\s e)k tw=n e)/rgwn tw=n a)rgurei/wn kai\ tou\s kata\ th\n a)/llhn xw/ran: e)/peita tou\s o)fei/lontas tw=| dhmosi/w| kai\ tou\s a)ti/mous kai\ tou\s a)peyhfisme/nous kai\ tou\s a)poi/kous.
Notes (4)
- Depending on context, the force of
a)poyhfi/zomai can mean either condemnation or acquittal. See the examples below, and generally LSJ s.v.- 1The equivalent entry in Harpokration (s.v.
a)poyhfi/zontai ) makes it clear that this entry had its origins on the use of the word in the C4 BCE, by Dinarchus (fr. LVI.2 Conomis); cf. generally alpha 3656. ↩- 2Procopius, Secret History 29.10 (web address 1), on Liberius; cf. Kaldellis (126). Liberius had been on trial before the Senate in Byzantion for his role in a brawl (probably in 542 CE) with Ioannes Laxarion and his supporters over who was to administer the office of augustal prefect in Alexandria. Among many others, Ioannes was killed in the melee. On Liberius, see PLRE II s.v. Liberius(3). On Ioannes, see PLRE IIIa s.v. Ioannes(31). ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable, but presumably some garbled version of the post-Arginusae trials, Athens 406 BCE. See Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.1-35, esp. 1.7.1-2: "in Athens the people deposed all these generals except Konon ... Two of the generals who had taken part in the battle, Protomachos and Aristogenes, did not return to Athens. The other six -- Perikles, Diomedon, Lysias, Aristokrates, Thrasyllos and Erasinides -- did". ↩
- 4Hyperides fr. 29 Jensen. (For "colonists", apoikoi, we should read "metics", metoikoi.)
- 1The equivalent entry in Harpokration (s.v.
References
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Neighbours in Adler order
Revisions (10)
- Ronald Allentweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth
- Ronald Allenexpanded n.2, added bibliography and link
- David Whiteheadmore notes and tweaking
- David Whiteheadaugmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics
- David Whiteheadrestorative and other cosmetics
- William HuttonCosmetics, modified translation, set status
- David Whiteheadaugmented note
- David Whiteheadsupplied headword; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics
- David Whiteheadtranslated