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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 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α540Ἀδύνατοιincapables, handicappeds… Harpok., possessing less than three minas of property. [2] ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 49.4 (web address 1). [3] Lysias 24. 13, 26 (web addresses 2 and 3). [4] Philochorus FGrH 328 F197a.Matched in noteshighshort
α3546Ἀπόστασιςdistance… [now 37 Carey OCT], Hyperides fr. 99 Jensen) and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 58.3. [4] See alpha 3703.

η39

Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίου

presidency of a jurycourt

It was not permitted to bring all lawsuits before all of the archons. Rather, before the Archon they tried cases involving orphans and matters involving insanity and adjudications about inheritances, and the records of…

Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίου· τοῖς ἄρχουσιν οὐ πάσας πᾶσιν ἐφεῖτο δίκας εἰσάγειν· ἀλλὰ τῷ μὲν Ἄρχοντι τὰς τῶν ὀρφανῶν καὶ τὰ τῆς παρανοίας καὶ τὰς τῶν ἀποκλήρων ἐπιδικασίας, τοῖς δὲ…

meter and music1

meter and music1

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α4269Ἀστυνόμοςtown-superintendent, astynomos… into e)/melle. [2] The primary source (via Harpok.) is Aristotle(?), Athenaion Politeia 50.2 (web address 1); see also e.g. Demosth. 24.112, above (web address 2). For the dung-collectors cf. alpha 2437.Matched in noteshighshort

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".Matched in noteshighshort

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).Matched in noteshighmedium

γ146Γεννηταίclan-members… Plato, Philebus 30D; cf. the scholia to Demosthenes 57.23; ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia [Constitution of the Athenians] fr.3; etc. See also gamma 147, phi 693, phi 694.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ88Δατεῖσθαιto distribute… [1] Lysias fr. 7 Sauppe (still 7 Carey OCT); ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56.6 (web address 1) with Rhodes 631.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ651Διαμεμετρημένη ἡμέραmeasured-out day… shows) originates with Aeschines 2.126 (web address 1) and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 67.3-4 (web address 2). [2] Isaeus fr. 40 Sauppe.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ888Διαιτηταῖςarbitrators… 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

δ1475Δωροξενίαbribery by a foreigner… abbreviated from Harpokration s.v., where oratory (Lysias, Hyperides) and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 59.3, are cited. [1] i.e., improperly enrolled as an Athenian citizen.Matched in noteshighshort

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

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.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2468Ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν μυστηρίωνsuperintendent of the Mysteries… first instance on Demosthenes 21.171, and proceeding to quote ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.1. [1] This explanatory phrase is the Suda's own. [2] Aristocratic families. For the Eumolpidai see epsilon 3584 (and cf. epsilon 3585); …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2505Ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳat Palladion, at Palladium… of the headword phrase in Demosthenes 23.71 (and citing ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.3). See also e.g. Pausanias 1.28.9. [1] Phanodemos FGrH 325 F12. [2] Klei(to)demos FGrH 323 F12. For the mysterious Ephetai cf. epsilon …Matched in noteshighmedium

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 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2842ἘπώνυμοιEponyms… & 23) and in primary sources such as the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia.Matched in noteshighshort

ει246Εἰς ἐμφανῶν κατάστασινbringing into the open… on the procedure's appearance in Isaeus 6.31 (and citing ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56.6).Matched in noteshighshort

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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ525Κατὰ δήμους δικασταίdeme justices, justices by demes… Athens itself. See generally the authority whom Harpok. cites: ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 53.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1021Κατεχειροτόνησαν αὐτοῦthey voted to convict him… See on this P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 527; and, on voting by show of hands in the Assembly, Hansen op.cit. 147-8. [1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 1.15.11, on …Matched in noteshighmedium

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] …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2760Κυρία ἐκκλησίαςmaster assembly, chief assembly-meeting… 89 Jensen. The material which glosses it comes from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.3-4. cf. epsilon 470.Matched in noteshighshort