Πωλητής
seller
Translated by David Whitehead1 Mar 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] someone [engaged in] vending.
"For he was a seller of grave-goods".1
Also [sc. attested is the plural]pwlhtai/ :2 these men used to sell the properties of those who owed money to the public treasury [sc. in classical Athens] by a fixed time and were not paying. But also subject to the poletai were any men who were not contributing the registered sum of money in wartime, besides those who had been convicted of usurping citizenship and metics who had failed to take a prostates and been convicted on that charge;3 for [the poletai] used to sell off the properties of these men and pay the proceeds into the public treasury.
"For he was a seller of grave-goods".1
Also [sc. attested is the plural]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πωλητής· ὁ πιπράσκων. ἦν γὰρ ἐνταφίων πωλητής. καὶ Πωληταί· οὗτοι τῶν ὀφειλόντων τῷ δημοσίῳ κατὰ προθεσμίαν καὶ μὴ ἀποδιδόντων ἐπίπρασκον τὰς οὐσίας. ὑπέκειντο δὲ τοῖς Πωληταῖς καὶ ὅσοι τὸ διαγραφὲν ἀργύριον ἐν πολέμῳ μὴ εἰσέφερον, ἔτι καὶ οἱ ξενίας ἁλόντες καὶ ὁ μέτοικος καὶ προστάτην οὐκ ἔχων καὶ ὁ ἀποστασίου γραφείς· τούτων γὰρ τὰς οὐσίας πωλοῦντες παρεκατέβαλον εἰς τὸ δημόσιον.
Betacode
*pwlhth/s: o( pipra/skwn. h)=n ga\r e)ntafi/wn pwlhth/s. kai\ *pwlhtai/: ou(=toi tw=n o)feilo/ntwn tw=| dhmosi/w| kata\ proqesmi/an kai\ mh\ a)podido/ntwn e)pi/praskon ta\s ou)si/as. u(pe/keinto de\ toi=s *pwlhtai=s kai\ o(/soi to\ diagrafe\n a)rgu/rion e)n pole/mw| mh\ ei)se/feron, e)/ti kai\ oi( ceni/as a(lo/ntes kai\ o( me/toikos kai\ prosta/thn ou)k e)/xwn kai\ o( a)postasi/ou grafei/s: tou/twn ga\r ta\s ou)si/as pwlou=ntes parekate/balon ei)s to\ dhmo/sion.
Notes (3)
- 1Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 29 Habrich. ↩
- 2What now follows = Photius pi1588 Theodoridis. See also pi 2160 (Harpokration). ↩
- 3cf. alpha 3703, nu 166. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- π2160Πωληταὶsellers, poletai['Sellers'] and 'Sellery'. The Sellers hold a particular official position at Athens, ten men in number, one from each tribe. They manage everything which is sold by the city: the taxes and mines and leases and…
- π2161Πωλητήριονpoleterion, sellery[Meaning] the place of sales [sc. in classical Athens]. So Hyperides [sc. uses the term].
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Revision history4 revisions · last 11 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead