Ναυτοδίκαι
nautodikai
Translated by Andrea Consogno10 Oct 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[The name for] magistrates trying lawsuits which involved ship-owners1 and those working in and around the port; just as nauphylakes are certain officials assigned to the security of the [war]ships.
The nautodikai were a particular magistracy in Athens. At any rate Krateros says: "if someone born from two foreign parents attempts to belong to a phratria, it is necessary for any Athenian who wants [sc. to do so] and has access to lawsuits to prosecute him; and to bring the case to the nautodikai on the last day of the month."2
"He would be enrolled into a phratry or phrateres or a phatria even if he might be an alien but born in wedlock, evidently as [someone] indigenous from the father [and] from the mother".3
The nautodikai were a particular magistracy in Athens. At any rate Krateros says: "if someone born from two foreign parents attempts to belong to a phratria, it is necessary for any Athenian who wants [sc. to do so] and has access to lawsuits to prosecute him; and to bring the case to the nautodikai on the last day of the month."2
"He would be enrolled into a phratry or phrateres or a phatria even if he might be an alien but born in wedlock, evidently as [someone] indigenous from the father [and] from the mother".3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ναυτοδίκαι· ἄρχοντες ἐπὶ τοῖς ναυκλήροις δικάζοντες καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὸ ἐμπόριον ἐργαζομένοις· ὡς καὶ ναυφύλακες ἄρχοντές τινες ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν νεῶν φυλακῆς. ἀρχή τις ἦν Ἀθήνησιν οἱ ναυτοδίκαι. Κρατερὸς γοῦν φησίν· ἐὰν δέ τις ἐξ ἀμφοῖν γενοῖν γεγονὼς φρατίζῃ, διώκειν δεῖ τῷ βουλομένῳ Ἀθηναίῳ, οἷς δίκαι εἰσί· λαγχάνειν δὲ τῇ ἔνῃ καὶ νέᾳ πρὸς τοὺς ναυτοδίκας. εἰς φρήτρην ἢ φράτορας ἢ φατρίαν ἐγγράφηται καὶ μὴ ξένος εἴη ἀλλ' ἠθαγενὴς δηλαδὴ ὡς αὐτόχθων ἔκ τε πατρὸς ἔκ τε μητρός.
Betacode
*nautodi/kai: a)/rxontes e)pi\ toi=s nauklh/rois dika/zontes kai\ toi=s peri\ to\ e)mpo/rion e)rgazome/nois: w(s kai\ naufu/lakes a)/rxonte/s tines e)pi\ th=s tw=n new=n fulakh=s. a)rxh/ tis h)=n *)aqh/nhsin oi( nautodi/kai. *kratero\s gou=n fhsi/n: e)a\n de/ tis e)c a)mfoi=n genoi=n gegonw\s frati/zh|, diw/kein dei= tw=| boulome/nw| *)aqhnai/w|, oi(=s di/kai ei)si/: lagxa/nein de\ th=| e)/nh| kai\ ne/a| pro\s tou\s nautodi/kas. ei)s frh/trhn h)\ fra/toras h)\ fatri/an e)ggra/fhtai kai\ mh\ ce/nos ei)/h a)ll' h)qagenh\s dhladh\ w(s au)to/xqwn e)/k te patro\s e)/k te mhtro/s.
Notes (3)
- The first paragraph here follows Photius nu61 Theodoridis; the second Harpokration s.v. (via Photius nu60 Theodoridis), commenting on Lysias 17.5 & 8.
- 1cf. nu 56. ↩
- 2Krateros FGrH 342 F4 (from Book 4 of his work). ↩
- 3From the margin of ms M. Source unidentifiable (and apparently garbled). For 'born in wedlock' see iota 231. ↩
References
Ferguson, W.S., "The Attic Orgeones", Harvard Theological Review 37 (1944) 61-140
Andrewes, A., "Philochoros on phratries", Journal of Hellenic Studies 81 (1961) 1-15
Prandi, L., Ricerche sulla concessione della cittadinanza ateniese nel V sec. a.C., Milan, 1982
Lambert, S.D., The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor, 1993
Andrewes, A., "Philochoros on phratries", Journal of Hellenic Studies 81 (1961) 1-15
Prandi, L., Ricerche sulla concessione della cittadinanza ateniese nel V sec. a.C., Milan, 1982
Lambert, S.D., The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor, 1993
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Revision history4 revisions · last 5 Jun 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- further modifications to translation; x-ref — David Whitehead
- modified aspects of translation; augmented and modified notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Andrea Consogno