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- μ1162ΜνησιθείδηςMnesitheides, Mnesithides… 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.
- ε2287Ἐπὶ Δελφινίῳat Delphinion, at DelphiniumAbridged from Harpokration. s.v., which cites Demosthenes 23.74 and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.3. See also delta 206.
- ε1156Ἕνδεκα(the) Eleven… the Atticist epsilon37; also in Photius and elsewhere. cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 52; Pollux 8.102; and eta 39.
- λ339Λεύκωμαwhiteboard… (web address 2). P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 555 lists some alternatives to the present headword.
- ε470Ἐκκλησία κυρίαprincipal assembly… [1] cf. epsilon 471. On the ekklesiai see generally ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.3-5, with P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981) ad loc. Also M.H. Hansen, The Athenian Democracy in …
- η39Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… 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. the …
- α3281ἈποδέκταιreceiversAbridged from Harpokration s.v., whose source in turn is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 48.1 (web address 1).
- α486Ἀδικίουmisdemeanor… 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 (as …
- β158Βασιλικὴ διαδρομήroyal parade, royal progress… and see generally P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 636-50 and passim -- but little or nothing is known of his "parade".
- μ817Μετρονόμοιweights-and-measures inspectors, metronomoi… are textually corrupt. Harpok. reports the correct ones from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 51.2 (web address 1): "They were ten in number, five...five...".
- λ523Λίθος[the] stone… fig. 75. [1] Demosthenes 54.26 (web address 1). [2] ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.1 and 55.5; Philochorus FGrH 328 F21.
- χ560Χρυσῆ εἰκώνgolden image… 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 this …
- ε2842ἘπώνυμοιEponyms… & 23) and in primary sources such as the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia.
- ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… 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, epsilon …
- ε3509ΕὐθυμένηςEuthymenes, Euthumenes… Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Drama, 123). Compare ps.-Xenophon, Athenaion Politeia (the "Old Oligarch") 2.18: 'they do not allow comic attacks and abuse directed against the People;' but this sounds more general.
- ε2465Ἐπιμελητὰς ἐμπορίουsuperintendents of the port… 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.
- λ651Λογισταὶreckoners… Andocides 1.78. Harpok. also cites Eupolis, Demosthenes, and the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia.
- ι537Ἱππεῖςcavalrymen, horsemen, knights… 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, pi …
- α3336Ἀποκαρτερήσανταhaving killed oneself by abstinence… from somewhere (other than the quotations given below) -- probably Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.234A (6.24 Kaibel) [= part of Posidonius fr. 402 Theiler], on Gylippos (gamma 477) doing this after his conviction for embezzlement by …
- ε2467Ἐπιμεληταὶoverseers, superintendents… 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 appointed …
- κ2760Κυρία ἐκκλησίαςmaster assembly, chief assembly-meeting… 89 Jensen. The material which glosses it comes from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.3-4. cf. epsilon 470.
- ι525Ἱππάςcavalry… 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 a …
- ε471Ἐκκλησίανassembly… 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 confuse …
- δ1491Δραγμὴ χαλαζῶσαa drachma falling as hail; a handful falling as hail… -- as opposed to payments for e.g. assembly attendance (?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 41.3, etc.) -- is hard to come by, some have identified this Diophantus as the well-attested Sphettian politician of a later generation, …
- δ888Διαιτηταῖςarbitrators… on Demosthenes 21.86 (web address 1) and also cites ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 53.1-3. See also delta 887, delta 889.
- β384Βοώνηςox-buyer… see L.A. Tritle, "A Missing Athenian General: Meidias Kephisodorou Anagyrasios," Athenaeum 70.2 (1992) 487-494, who draws attention to evidence for a plurality of Meidias' 'generalships' (strategiai) at Demosthenes 21.148.] [2] The Greek here is …
- ε2611Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… for proedroi). [1] For the material so far cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.1-2. (It then goes badly astray.)
- κ2759Κυρίαsovereignty… 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 be Athenian) unidentifiable. [4] …
- η40Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… implicit source of the entry as a whole is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56-59 (web address 1). And see already eta 39. [1] Aeschines 3.14 (web address 2). [2] Reading a)/llai ktl at the start …
- β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… Law (Oxford 1993) 106. [3] Isaeus fr. 62 Sauppe; ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 59.3 (web address 1); Dinarchus fr. XV.2 Conomis. [4] Demosthenes 25.28 (web address 2). [5] Hyperides, Against Athenogenes 18 (web address 3).