Χειροσκόποι
hand-counters, tellers
Translated by Jennifer Benedict21 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] they who observe votes by show of hands.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Χειροσκόποι· οἱ τὰς χειροτονίας ἐπισκοποῦντες.
Betacode
*xeirosko/poi: oi( ta\s xeirotoni/as e)piskopou=ntes.
Notes
- Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The nominative plural headword, however, is not extant in Plato, or indeed anywhere else except Artemidorus 2.69, where, in context, it cannot be glossed like this but is connected rather with the world of chi 258.