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λ523Λίθος[the] stone… seem to have made oaths at a particular stone, as Aristotle and Philochorus show.Matched in translationhighshort
α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… itself. They say that this a dictum of Solon's, though Aristotle and Theophrastus [says it is] Bias's.Matched in translationhighshort
μ1259Μορῶνmora… uses the word]. Certain Laconian formations are called thus. And Aristotle says that there are six named moirai[sic] and all Lakedaimonians are divided between the moirai. And Xenophon says, in the Constitution of the …Matched in translationhighshort
μ203ΜάρκελλοςMarkellos, Marcellus… (below), q.v. for all details. [1] Reigned 395-408. [2] Cf. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1124a1-2. [3] Cf. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1161b4. [4] Blockley, Eunapius fr. 62.[4].Matched in noteshighshort
μ925Μηλιέων πολιτείαMelians' constitution… a citation of the work of this name produced by Aristotle (alpha 3929) and his associates in the C4 BCE (frs.553-555 Rose). It is explicitly cited at tau 874.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1162ΜνησιθείδηςMnesitheides, Mnesithides… e.g. the Athenian eponymous archon of 457/6 BCE (mentioned in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 26.2 [web address 1]); also the name of one of the Athenian "Thirty Tyrants" of 404/3.Matched in noteshighshort
β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… two is brought to court in the Palladion; likewise also Aristotle; but Dinarchus [says that it is] in the Areopagos. Concerning the other charge Demosthenes has something to say in the first [speech] Against …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2744Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… crest -- just like the crest placed on the head. Aristotle says in Constitution of the Athenians: "they stood the laws they had written up on the kyrbeis in the royal stoa."Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2287Ἐπὶ Δελφινίῳat Delphinion, at DelphiniumAbridged from Harpokration. s.v., which cites Demosthenes 23.74 and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.3. See also delta 206.Matched in noteshighshort
ι537Ἱππεῖςcavalrymen, horsemen, knights… to Aristophanes, Knights 627, where the headword appears; compare generally ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.3. [1] Literally, five-hundred-bushel men. See e.g. Thucydides 3.16; Aristotle, Politics 1274a19; Plutarch, Solon 18. See also epsilon 653, iota 525, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α197Ἀγένειαlow birth… of birth. It is first attested in the Politics of Aristotle 6.1317b40 (web address 1 below) where a)ge/neia, peni/a and banausi/a are the defining characteristics, from a hostile standpoint, of democracy. Similar entry in …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1156Ἕνδεκα(the) ElevenPausanias the Atticist epsilon37; also in Photius and elsewhere. cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 52; Pollux 8.102; and eta 39.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2759Κυρίαsovereignty… 'sovereign' assembly-meeting, one per prytany (thus ten per year) in Aristotle's time; see ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.4-6 (web address 1), and cf. epsilon 470, kappa 2760. [3] Quotation (and incident -- not likely to …Matched in noteshighshort
μ259Μάστειρεςsearchers, masteres… on Hyperides fr. 133 Jensen and going on to cite Aristotle (fr. 567 Rose, from the Constitution of the Pelleneans). [1] zhthtai/ (zeta 92).Matched in noteshighshort
η39Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… over time.) The ultimate source of the present entry is ?Aristotle. Athenaion Politeia 56-61, here much abridged. [1] a.k.a the Archon Eponymous (a)/rxwn e)pw/numos), because each Athenian civil year was named after him (e.g. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3281ἈποδέκταιreceiversAbridged from Harpokration s.v., whose source in turn is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 48.1 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
ο149Ὀλιγαρχούμενοιthose being oligarched, those being governed by oligarchy… possibilities begin with Thucydides 8.91.3. [1] A bland reference to Aristotle's tripartite theory of constitutions in the Politics, a commonplace of ancient political theory.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1062ΔικαίαρχοςDikaiarkhos, Dicaearchus… of Pheidias, Sicilian, from the city of Messene. Pupil of Aristotle. Philosopher and rhetorician and geometrician. [He wrote] Measurements of the Mountains in the Peloponnese; Life of Hellas in 3 books. This man wrote …Matched in translationhighshort
δ446Δημοκρατίαdemocracy… that are too modern. See (e.g.) Herodotus 6.43, Thucydides 6.89, Aristotle Politics 1279b18; and see generally OCD(4) 436-7 (s.v. 'democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical'). [1] Polybius 11.13.7. It continues: "whereas a tyranny, the more ambitious …Matched in noteshighshort
α486Ἀδικίουmisdemeanor… source is cited there, but it is nevertheless recognizable as ?Aristotle Athenaion Politeia 54.2. As is regular in entries of this kind, the headword is in the genitive case, implying the noun di/kh or …Matched in noteshighshort
μ817Μετρονόμοιweights-and-measures inspectors, metronomoi… figures are textually corrupt. Harpok. reports the correct ones from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 51.2 (web address 1): "They were ten in number, five...five...".Matched in noteshighshort
χ560Χρυσῆ εἰκώνgolden image… this oath see e.g. (with varying detail) Plato, Phaedrus 235D-E; ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.1 and 55.5; Plutarch, Solon 25.3. [1] i.e. the nine chief "magistrates" (office-holders) each year. [2] Delphi. [3] The text of …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… 42 Sauppe and citing other material (Aeschines 3.14 & 29, ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.2-3; Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 12). See also epsilon 2610, epsilon 2611, epsilon 2613, epsilon 2614, epsilon 2615; and cf. epsilon 2616, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2465Ἐπιμελητὰς ἐμπορίουsuperintendents of the port… The ultimate source of this material (cited by Harpok.) is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 51.4, and there, more intelligibly, this adjective is sitiko/n, "for grain". See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
γ418Γραμματεύςclerk, secretary… secretaries of classical Athens (as already in gamma 417). See (?)Aristotle, Ath.Pol. 54.3-4; and cf. Pollux 8.98 and Harpokration s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2467Ἐπιμεληταὶoverseers, superintendents… identified with the 10 superintendents of the Dionysia mentioned in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56.4 (web address 1); in any event an Athenian honorific decree from the 320s (IG II(2) 354) alludes to 'the superintendents …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2760Κυρία ἐκκλησίαςmaster assembly, chief assembly-meeting… fr. 89 Jensen. The material which glosses it comes from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.3-4. cf. epsilon 470.Matched in noteshighshort
ι525Ἱππάςcavalry… sigma 779. [2] Four, rather (as is clear from e.g. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.3). This error in Photius' source creates the need for a non-existent fifth class: see below [3] Meaning either farmers owning …Matched in noteshighshort
ε471Ἐκκλησίανassembly… Athens were paid to attend meetings of the ekklesia (see ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 41.3, with M.H. Hansen, The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (Oxford 1991) 150); however, this ancient comment seems to …Matched in noteshighshort
δ888Διαιτηταῖςarbitrators… commenting on Demosthenes 21.86 (web address 1) and also cites ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 53.1-3. See also delta 887, delta 889.Matched in noteshighmedium