Κλητῆρες
summons-witnesses
Translated by David Whitehead1 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
and to be a summons-witness. Summons-witnesses [are] the men through whom those involved in litigation with anybody are summoned to the cases; for it was necessary that certain people appear as witnesses of the summons.1 To-be-a-summons-witness is to become a summons-witness2, as Isaeus [shows].3 And [the middle voice] klhteu/esqai and e)piklhteu/esqai are applied to witnesses, whenever people disregard the testimony in the jurycourt; and there is a fine of a thousand drachmas on them, as Isaeus [shows] in the [speech] For Python on a charge of having neglected his patron.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κλητῆρες καὶ Κλητεύειν· κλητῆρες, οἱ ἄνδρες, δι' ὧν εἰς τὰς δίκας προκαλοῦνται οἱ δικαζόμενοί τισιν· ἔδει γὰρ παρεῖναί τινας ὥσπερ μάρτυρας τῆς προκλήσεως. κλητεῦσαι δέ ἐστι τὸ κλητῆρα γενέσθαι, ὡς Ἰσαῖος. λέγεται δὲ κλητεύεσθαι καὶ ἐκκλητεύεσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν μαρτύρων, ὅταν μὴ ὑπακούσωσι πρὸς τὴν μαρτυρίαν ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ· καὶ ἔστιν ἐπιτίμιον κατ' αὐτῶν δραχμαὶ χίλιαι, ὡς Ἰσαῖος ἐν τῷ ὑπὲρ Πύθωνος ἀποστασίου.
Betacode
*klhth=res kai\ *klhteu/ein: klhth=res, oi( a)/ndres, di' w(=n ei)s ta\s di/kas prokalou=ntai oi( dikazo/menoi/ tisin: e)/dei ga\r parei=nai/ tinas w(/sper ma/rturas th=s proklh/sews. klhteu=sai de/ e)sti to\ klhth=ra gene/sqai, w(s *)isai=os. le/getai de\ klhteu/esqai kai\ e)kklhteu/esqai e)pi\ tw=n martu/rwn, o(/tan mh\ u(pakou/swsi pro\s th\n marturi/an e)n tw=| dikasthri/w|: kai\ e)/stin e)piti/mion kat' au)tw=n draxmai\ xi/liai, w(s *)isai=os e)n tw=| u(pe\r *pu/qwnos a)postasi/ou.
Notes (4)
- An abridged version of Harpokration s.v., where at one point the punctuation makes better sense than it does here ("...witnesses. Whenever people disregard the testimony in the jurycourt, there is..."). See also kappa 1792, kappa 1794, kappa 1795.
- 1For this Harpok. cites Isaeus fr. 108 Sauppe. ↩
- 2That is, the verb
klhteu/ein is cognate with the nounklhth/r . ↩ - 3Isaeus fr. 88 Sauppe. ↩
- 4Isaeus fr. 119 Sauppe. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 11 Jul 2011
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-references — Catharine Roth
- internal rearrangement; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead