Κοινωνικόν
jointly-held
Translated by David Whitehead3 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes in the [speech] On the Symmories speaks of joint-holders perhaps in reference to brothers holding an undistributed property; their father was able to perform liturgies, but the heirs to his property could not manage a trierarchy individually. But perhaps it can also be a term applied to voluntary partnerships in merchant-shipping or something else, where each man did not have the whole value of the common property.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κοινωνικόν· Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῶν συμμοριῶν κοινωνικοὺς λέγει τάχα μὲν τοὺς ἀνέμητον οὐσίαν νέμοντας ἀδελφούς· ὧν ὁ μὲν πατὴρ ἐδύνατο λειτουργεῖν, οἱ δὲ κληρονόμοι τῶν ἐκείνου καθ' ἕνα τριηράρχην οὐκ ἐξήρκουν. τάχα δ' ἂν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἑκουσίαν κοινωνίαν συνθεμένων ἐμπορίας ἤ τινος ἄλλου· ὧν ἕκαστος οὐκ εἶχε τὸ ὅλον τίμημα τῆς κοινῆς οὐσίας.
Betacode
*koinwniko/n: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| *peri\ tw=n summoriw=n koinwnikou\s le/gei ta/xa me\n tou\s a)ne/mhton ou)si/an ne/montas a)delfou/s: w(=n o( me\n path\r e)du/nato leitourgei=n, oi( de\ klhrono/moi tw=n e)kei/nou kaq' e(/na trihra/rxhn ou)k e)ch/rkoun. ta/xa d' a)\n kai\ peri\ tw=n e(kousi/an koinwni/an sunqeme/nwn e)mpori/as h)/ tinos a)/llou: w(=n e(/kastos ou)k ei)=xe to\ o(/lon ti/mhma th=s koinh=s ou)si/as.
Notes
- The passage in question is Demosthenes 14.16 (web address 1; the word there, and still in Harpokration s.v., is
koinwnikw=n, genitive plural, masculine; here in the Suda a final vowel shift has turned it intokoinwniko/n , nominative or accusative singular, neuter.)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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