Κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἀψευδεῖν
no lying in the agora
Translated by David Whitehead30 Nov 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
There seems to be a law, relating to goods on sale,1 which prohibits lying in the agora. At any rate, Theophrastus in his [volumes] On Laws says: "the market-commissioners had two of these responsibilities, [ensuring] good order in the agora and [seeing] that there was no lying, on the part of not only the sellers but the buyers too."2