Πληρωτής
filler
Translated by David Whitehead15 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes [in the speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. uses the word].1 Fillers are what they used to call those making an eranos2 to people who had either been allotted it or had bought [sc. the right to] it. These might be what we [now] call eranarchs.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πληρωτής· Δημοσθένης κατὰ Ἀριστογείτονος. πληρωτὰς ἐκάλουν τοὺς ἀποδιδόντας τὸν ἔρανον τοῖς ἤτοι λαχοῦσιν ἢ ἐωνημένοις. εἶεν δ' ἂν οὗτοι οἱ παρ' ἡμῖν καλούμενοι ἐρανάρχαι.
Betacode
*plhrwth/s: *dhmosqe/nhs kata\ *)aristogei/tonos. plhrwta\s e)ka/loun tou\s a)podido/ntas to\n e)/ranon toi=s h)/toi laxou=sin h)\ e)wnhme/nois. ei)=en d' a)\n ou(=toi oi( par' h(mi=n kalou/menoi e)rana/rxai.
Notes (2)
- Abridged from Harpokration s.v. (who went on to cite other passages from Attic oratory).
- 1Demosthenes 25.21 (web address 1). ↩
- 2A communal loan: see epsilon 2893 (also epsilon 2891, epsilon 2892). For eranarchs see e.g. Diogenes Laertius 6.63. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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