Πινακίοις
on boards
Translated by David Whitehead9 Mar 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
There was a custom for the taxiarchs to announce to their own soldiers, through a herald, what had been decided; for instance, where it was necessary to march, and how many days' provisions should be planned for. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "and look at what we should write up on the boards". From a metaphor of the tribesmen, who write up the [sc. names of the] soldiers on a board.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πινακίοις· ἔθος ἦν τοὺς ταξιάρχους διὰ κήρυκος ἀπαγγέλλειν τοῖς ἑαυτῶν στρατιώταις τὰ δεδογμένα, οἷον ποῦ δεῖ πορεύεσθαι, καὶ πόσων ἡμερῶν δεῖ σιτία προνοεῖσθαι. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισι· σκοπεῖν δ', ὅ τι ἂν προγράφωμεν ἐν τοῖς πινακίοις. ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῶν φυλετῶν, οἵτινες προγράφουσι τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐν πίνακι.
Betacode
*pinaki/ois: e)/qos h)=n tou\s tacia/rxous dia\ kh/rukos a)pagge/llein toi=s e(autw=n stratiw/tais ta\ dedogme/na, oi(=on pou= dei= poreu/esqai, kai\ po/swn h(merw=n dei= siti/a pronoei=sqai. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: skopei=n d', o(/ ti a)\n progra/fwmen e)n toi=s pinaki/ois. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n fuletw=n, oi(/tines progra/fousi tou\s stratiw/tas e)n pi/naki.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Birds 450 (web address 1), with scholion.
cf. generally pi 1610, pi 1612.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- π1610ΠινάκιαplatesThose employed instead of lots by those being allotted. These seem to be bronze, as Demosthenes indicates in the [speech] On the Name. In the Philippics, when the orator says "a tiny, tiny little plate, Athenians", he…
- π1612Πινάκιονlittle board[Meaning a] wooden tablet. "The officials used to carry the little board from the general in the middle of the night."
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Revision history3 revisions · last 13 Oct 2011
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-refs — David Whitehead
- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead