Λίθος
[the] stone
Translated by David Whitehead5 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Konon [writes]: "leading to the stone one by one, like this, our witnesses who were present and putting them on oath".1 So Athenians seem to have made oaths at a particular stone, as Aristotle and Philochorus show.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λίθος· Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Κόνωνος· τῶν τε παρόντων καθ' ἕνα ἡμῶν οὑτωσὶ πρὸς τὸν λίθον ἄγοντες καὶ ἐξορκοῦντες. ἐοίκασιν οὖν Ἀθηναῖοι πρός τινι λίθῳ τοὺς ὅρκους ποιεῖσθαι, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης καὶ Φιλόχορος ὑποδηλοῦσι.
Betacode
*li/qos: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *ko/nwnos: tw=n te paro/ntwn kaq' e(/na h(mw=n ou(twsi\ pro\s to\n li/qon a)/gontes kai\ e)corkou=ntes. e)oi/kasin ou)=n *)aqhnai=oi pro/s tini li/qw| tou\s o(/rkous poiei=sqai, w(s *)aristote/lhs kai\ *filo/xoros u(podhlou=si.
Notes (2)
- Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
J.M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (London 1986) 101-102 with fig. 75. - 1Demosthenes 54.26 (web address 1). ↩
- 2?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.1 and 55.5; Philochorus FGrH 328 F21. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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