Παράστασις
fee
Translated by David Whitehead13 Dec 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
A very common word in the [sc. Attic] orators.1 It is a drachma paid by the litigants in private suits. Menander in Woman-hater [writes]: "he is dragging a two-leaved tablet there, and a fee of one drachma".2 Aristotle in Constitution of [the] Athenians, speaking of the thesmothetai, says: "they also receive the public suits in which there is a fee: being a foreigner [sc. who masquerades as a citizen] and bribery by a foreigner - if someone bribes his way out of a charge of being a foreigner - and falsely registering someone as a debtor and falsely appearing as a witness to a judicial summons and failing to delete a discharged debtor and failing to register a debtor and seduction".3 Demetrius of Phaleron in the [volumes] On Lawmaking says that the arbitrators take the drachmas: one, which they call a fee, from the initial complaint, and another in connection with every affidavit.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παράστασις· τοὔνομα πολὺ παρὰ τοῖς ῥήτορσιν. ἔστι δὲ δραχμὴ καταβαλλομένη ὑπὸ τῶν δικαζομένων τὰς ἰδίας δίκας. Μένανδρος Μισογύνῃ· ἕλκει δὲ γραμματίδιον ἐκεῖσε δίθυρον, καὶ παράστασις μία δραχμή. Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ ἐν Ἀθηναίων Πολιτείᾳ περὶ τῶν θεσμοθετῶν λέγων φησίν· εἰσὶ δὲ γραφαὶ πρὸς αὐτούς, ὧν παράστασις τίθεται, ξενίας καὶ δωροξενίας, ἄν τις δῶρα δοὺς ἀποφύγῃ τὴν ξενίαν, καὶ ψευδεγγραφῆς καὶ ψευδοκλητίας καὶ βουλεύσεως καὶ γραφίου καὶ μοιχείας. Δημήτριος δὲ ὁ Φαληρεὺς ἐν τοῖς Περὶ νομοθεσίας τοὺς διαιτητὰς φησὶ λαμβάνειν τὰς δραχμάς, μίαν μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς λήξεως, ἣν παράστασιν ἐκάλουν· ἑτέραν δὲ κατὰ ὑπωμοσίου ἑκάστην.
Betacode
*para/stasis: tou)/noma polu\ para\ toi=s r(h/torsin. e)/sti de\ draxmh\ kataballome/nh u(po\ tw=n dikazome/nwn ta\s i)di/as di/kas. *me/nandros *misogu/nh|: e(/lkei de\ grammati/dion e)kei=se di/quron, kai\ para/stasis mi/a draxmh/. *)aristote/lhs de\ e)n *)aqhnai/wn *politei/a| peri\ tw=n qesmoqetw=n le/gwn fhsi/n: ei)si\ de\ grafai\ pro\s au)tou/s, w(=n para/stasis ti/qetai, ceni/as kai\ dwroceni/as, a)/n tis dw=ra dou\s a)pofu/gh| th\n ceni/an, kai\ yeudeggrafh=s kai\ yeudoklhti/as kai\ bouleu/sews kai\ grafi/ou kai\ moixei/as. *dhmh/trios de\ o( *falhreu\s e)n toi=s *peri\ nomoqesi/as tou\s diaithta\s fhsi\ lamba/nein ta\s draxma/s, mi/an me\n a)po\ th=s lh/cews, h(\n para/stasin e)ka/loun: e(te/ran de\ kata\ u(pwmosi/ou e(ka/sthn.
Notes (4)
- 1Perhaps accidentally, a more precise form of words (already in Photius pi302) than the one used by Harpokration s.v., where no genre is specified. For other senses of the headword, see pi 441 and pi 442. ↩
- 2Menander fr. 278 Koerte (238 K.-A.). ↩
- 3?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 59.3, slightly abridged. For the thesmothetai cf. theta 267. ↩
- 4FGrH 228 F7. For the arbitrators cf. delta 887, delta 888. ↩
References
A.R.W. Harrison, The Law of Athens, vol.2 (Oxford 1971) 94
Linked from3 entries
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Revision history8 revisions · last 31 May 2021
- cross-references — Catharine Roth
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- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- corrected my own typo — David Whitehead
- x-refs; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead