Μητρῷον

Metroon, Metroum

Translated by David Whitehead8 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

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Lycurgus in the [speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. mentions it]. They used to put the laws for inscription¹ in the Metroon.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μητρῷον· Λυκοῦργος ἐν τῷ κατὰ Ἀριστογείτονος. τοὺς νόμους ἔθεντο ἀναγράψαι ἐν τῷ Μητρῴῳ.

Betacode

*mhtrw=|on: *lukou=rgos e)n tw=| kata\ *)aristogei/tonos. tou\s no/mous e)/qento a)nagra/yai e)n tw=| *mhtrw/|w|.

Notes (1)

From Harpokration s.v., commenting on Lycurgus fr. II.1 Conomis. For the Metroon archive cf. mu 1003.
1So the transmitted text, but read, with Harpok., "after inscription" (a)nagra/yantes rather than a)nagra/yai). ↩

References

Rosalind Thomas, Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (Cambridge 1989) 38-9 and passim.

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Revision history6 revisions · last 18 May 2016

18 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
22 May 2013coding — Catharine Roth
12 Jul 2011tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
11 Nov 2005another keyword — David Whitehead
10 Oct 2003added alternative headword and another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
9 Oct 2003added keywords, set status — William Hutton
8 Dec 2000Translated — David Whitehead