Ὅρος

horos, boundary-stone

Translated by David Whitehead12 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

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This is what the Attic authors used to call the writings affixed to mortgaged houses and lands, which showed that they were mortgaged to a moneylender. So Demosthenes and Menander [sc. use the term].¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὅρος· οὕτως ἐκάλουν οἱ Ἀττικοὶ τὰ ἐπόντα ταῖς ὑποκειμέναις οἰκίαις καὶ χωρίοις γράμματα, ἃ ἐδήλουν, ὅτι ὑπόκεινται δανειστῇ. οὕτως Δημοσθένης καὶ Μένανδρος.

Betacode

*(/oros: ou(/tws e)ka/loun oi( *)attikoi\ ta\ e)po/nta tai=s u(pokeime/nais oi)ki/ais kai\ xwri/ois gra/mmata, a(\ e)dh/loun, o(/ti u(po/keintai daneisth=|. ou(/tws *dhmosqe/nhs kai\ *me/nandros.

Notes (1)

Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
1Demosthenes 41.6 (web address 1); Menander. fr. 332 Koerte, now 295 K.-A. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

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Revision history7 revisions · last 31 Dec 2014

31 Dec 2014Revised — David Whitehead
18 Jul 2013Revised — David Whitehead
18 Jul 2011fixed link — Catharine Roth
13 Jul 2011tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
28 Nov 2005another keyword — David Whitehead
2 Feb 2004augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
1 Feb 2004added link, set status — Catharine Roth
12 Dec 2000Translated — David Whitehead

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Greek original · Adler’s text

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