Ὠβάξ
obes, having obed
Translated by David Whitehead7 Oct 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[sc. A word found] in Plutarch.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὠβάξ· παρὰ Πλουτάρχῳ.
Betacode
*)wba/c: para\ *plouta/rxw|.
Notes
- Clearly an allusion to the "Great Rhetra", an archaic Spartan constitutional document quoted in Plutarch, Lycurgus 6, which includes the phrase
w)ba\s w)ba/canta , "having obed the obes". (On the obes - villages - of Sparta see N.F. Jones, Public Organisation in Ancient Greece (Philadelphia 1987) 118-123.) But is unclear whether this transmitted headwordw)ba/c is a mis-spelling of the noun or a truncation of the participle.
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