Προμετρητής
pre-measurer
Translated by David Whitehead30 Sep 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
The man measuring cereals and each of the other grains on sale in the [sc. Athenian] agora, and receiving a wage for this task, used to be called a pre-measurer. Dinarchus [says]: "the son of the Scythian pre-measurer joined a deme, and the same man carried on his pre-measuring in the agora, and you carried on accepting cereals from him".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προμετρητής· ὁ τοὺς πιπρασκομένους πυροὺς ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων σπερμάτων ἕκαστον διαμετρῶν, καὶ ὁ τούτου τοῦ ἔργου μισθὸν λαμβάνων προμετρητὴς ἐκαλεῖτο. Δείναρχος· ὁ Σκύθου τοῦ προμετρητοῦ υἱὸς ἐν δημόταις γέγονε, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ προμετρῶν διατετέλεκε, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐκλαβόμενοι παρ' αὐτοῦ τοὺς πυροὺς διατελεῖτε.
Betacode
*prometrhth/s: o( tou\s pipraskome/nous purou\s e)n th=| a)gora=| kai\ tw=n a)/llwn sperma/twn e(/kaston diametrw=n, kai\ o( tou/tou tou= e)/rgou misqo\n lamba/nwn prometrhth\s e)kalei=to. *dei/narxos: o( *sku/qou tou= prometrhtou= ui(o\s e)n dhmo/tais ge/gone, kai\ o( au)to\s e)n th=| a)gora=| prometrw=n diatete/leke, kai\ u(mei=s e)klabo/menoi par' au)tou= tou\s purou\s diatelei=te.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Revised — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead