Ἐπίκληρος
epikleros, heiress
Translated by David Whitehead5 Nov 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Whenever a girl is an orphan, without father or mother and also lacking brothers, and she happens to have property in her name, they call this girl an heiress; likewise [do they call] a girl who has already been married, whenever she is left [sc. widowed] on the entire property. For they also call the property a kleros ['allotment']. Also called an heiress is she who is not yet married but living with her father, inasmuch as the whole property is her due. They are called heiresses even if there are two or more. Some people call the heiress epiptamatis1 and patrouchos.2