Παρακαταβολή
court-deposit, parakatabole
Translated by William Hutton20 Jul 2011Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] deposit of a tenth part of the value.1
The lender has said to Strepsiades: "and know this, that I will put down prytaneia, or may I no longer live!" Meaning I will lodge an indictment against you; for they lodged the indictments of lawsuits in the Prytaneion.2 Strepsiades says: "you will be throwing them away in addition to the twelve." You will also lose, he is saying, the expenses for the indictment, by doing these things in vain, since my son will vanquish you by speaking the more unjust argument. That is, the tenth of the value of the lawsuit, which is called synonymously a court-deposit.
The lender has said to Strepsiades: "and know this, that I will put down prytaneia, or may I no longer live!" Meaning I will lodge an indictment against you; for they lodged the indictments of lawsuits in the Prytaneion.2 Strepsiades says: "you will be throwing them away in addition to the twelve." You will also lose, he is saying, the expenses for the indictment, by doing these things in vain, since my son will vanquish you by speaking the more unjust argument. That is, the tenth of the value of the lawsuit, which is called synonymously a court-deposit.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρακαταβολή· πρόθεσις τοῦ δεκάτου μέρους τοῦ τιμήματος. εἴρηκεν ὁ δανειστὴς πρὸς Στρεψιάδην· καὶ τοῦτ' ἴσθ', ὅτι θήσω πρυτανεῖ', ἢ μηκέτι ζῴην ἐγώ. ἀντὶ τοῦ γραφὴν κατὰ σοῦ θήσομαι· ἐν γὰρ τῷ πρυτανείῳ ἐτίθεσαν τὰς τῶν δικῶν γραφάς. λέγει ὁ Στρεψιάδης· προσαποβαλεῖς ἄρ', αὐτὰ πρὸς ταῖς δώδεκα. ἀπολεῖς, φησί, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῇ γραφῇ ἀναλώματα, μάτην αὐτὰ ποιήσας, διὰ τὸ περιέσεσθαί σου τὸν υἱόν μου, λέγοντα τὸν ἀδικώτερον λόγον. ὅ ἐστι τὸ δέκατον τοῦ τιμήματος τῆς δίκης, ὅπερ καλεῖται συνωνύμως παρακαταβολή.
Betacode
*parakatabolh/: pro/qesis tou= deka/tou me/rous tou= timh/matos. ei)/rhken o( daneisth\s pro\s *streyia/dhn: kai\ tou=t' i)/sq', o(/ti qh/sw prutanei=', h)\ mhke/ti zw/|hn e)gw/. a)nti\ tou= grafh\n kata\ sou= qh/somai: e)n ga\r tw=| prutanei/w| e)ti/qesan ta\s tw=n dikw=n grafa/s. le/gei o( *streyia/dhs: prosapobalei=s a)/r', au)ta\ pro\s tai=s dw/deka. a)polei=s, fhsi/, kai\ ta\ e)pi\ th=| grafh=| a)nalw/mata, ma/thn au)ta\ poih/sas, dia\ to\ perie/sesqai/ sou to\n ui(o/n mou, le/gonta to\n a)dikw/teron lo/gon. o(/ e)sti to\ de/katon tou= timh/matos th=s di/khs, o(/per kalei=tai sunwnu/mws parakatabolh/.
Notes (2)
- See also pi 353.
- 1= Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 998b; Synagoge; Photius, Lexicon pi237 Theodoridis. The rest of the entry consists of quotations from Aristophanes, Clouds 1254-56, with comments -- on which see next note -- from the scholia there. (The present headword does not appear in the Aristophanes passages but does in the scholia.) ↩
- 2Despite the verbal jingle, the scholiast here is wrong to connect prytaneia (pi 2997, pi 2998) with the Prytaneion (pi 2999). ↩
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- tweak, coding — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked headword and tr; augmented notes — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton