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Δεκατευτήριον · tithe-station, customs-house (δ 184) · Suda

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Near δ184

δ180for ten days; ten days old
δ181to pay a tithe
δ182to tithe
δ183tithe-men
δ184tithe-station, customs-house
δ185tithe-collectors
δ186to feast the tenth
δ187being bribed by tens
δ188tenfold

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Δεκατευτήριον

tithe-station, customs-house

Translated by David Whitehead18 Oct 2000Vetting: high9 revisions

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2 notes · 15 words

Translation

[Meaning] the ferry-crossing at Abydos↗.¹ "...that he will immediately ravage Abydos↗ and the customs-house there".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δεκατευτήριον· τὸ ἐν τῇ Ἀβύδῳ πορθμεῖον. ὡς εὐθὺς τὴν Ἄβυδον λυμανεῖται καὶ τὸ ἐν αὐτῇ δεκατευτήριον.

Betacode

*dekateuth/rion: to\ e)n th=| *)abu/dw| porqmei=on. w(s eu)qu\s th\n *)/abudon lumanei=tai kai\ to\ e)n au)th=| dekateuth/rion.

Notes (2)

The headword, a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
1For Abydos, on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont straits, see generally alpha 101. It was ideally positioned to tax passing shipping; compare e.g. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.22 (web address 1) on the dekateuterion at Chrysopolis (opposite Byzantium) in the late C5 BCE. ↩
2Agathias, Histories 5.12. In 559 CE, Zabergan (cf. PLRE IIIb s.v. Zabergan(2)), ruler of the Cotrigur Huns, contemplates his attack on the Thracian Chersonese (the modern-day Gallipoli Peninsula, cf. chi 215) and the adjacent Asiatic coast; cf. Frendo (147).

References

J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from2 entries

α437Ἀδεκατεύτουςnot having tithedAristophanes [sc. says this for those who are in the position of] not having paid taxes; for they dedicated in the Prytaneion tithes of the bellies of the sacrificial animals as their tenth share.
δ183Δεκατευτάςtithe-men[Meaning] tax-men, [the ones] exacting and collecting the tithe. So Antiphon [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] dekatelogoi, [meaning] the same [men]. They say dekatelogos in the feminine also.

Neighbouring entries

δ182Δεκατεύεινto tithe δ183Δεκατευτάςtithe-men δ184Δεκατευτήριονtithe-station, customs-house δ185Δεκατηλόγουςtithe-collectors δ186Δεκάτην ἑστιάσαιto feast the tenth

Revision history9 revisions · last 15 Oct 2023

15 Oct 2023expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference — Ronald Allen
12 Oct 2023tweaked translation after discussion with Managing Editor Catharine Roth — Ronald Allen
15 Jul 2016tweaked reference and link — Catharine Roth
8 Oct 2015Revised — David Whitehead
11 Jul 2015more coding — Catharine Roth
25 Mar 2015coding — Catharine Roth
18 Jun 2012more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
17 Jul 2003cosmetics, added link and keyword, set status — William Hutton
5 Sep 2002added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
18 Oct 2000Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Δεκατευτήριον (Adler number delta 184), trans. David Whitehead, 18 Oct 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/184

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗