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χ309Χίλιοι διακόσιοιTwelve HundredIsaeus says "there is no Lysides in the Twelve Hundred". The richest Athenians, those who performed liturgies, were twelve hundred [in number]. Other orators also mention them.Matched in translationhighshort
χ510Χρῆσταιchrestai, borrowers, lenders… two opposite meanings: for [it can mean] creditors, as in Isaeus. Aristophanes [writes]: "for by interest and the most hostile creditors I am being pillaged, plundered, having my goods seized for security". But Demosthenes …Matched in translationhighshort
χ378Χολαργέωνof Cholargeis, of Cholargos… s.v. (who says 'a deme of the Aiantid tribe'), citing Isaeus 8.8. Rather than the collective demotic, the more usual name for this deme was Cholargos.

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Χίλιοι διακόσιοι

Twelve Hundred

Isaeus says "there is no Lysides in the Twelve Hundred". The richest Athenians, those who performed liturgies, were twelve hundred [in number]. Other orators also mention them.

Χίλιοι διακόσιοι· Ἰσαῖός φησιν· οὐδεὶς Λυσίδης ἐστὶ τῶν διακοσίων καὶ χιλίων. οἱ πλουσιώτατοι Ἀθηναίων χίλιοι καὶ διακόσιοι ἦσαν, οἳ καὶ ἐλειτούργουν. μνημονεύουσι δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ…

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χ565ΧρυσίδιονchrysidionA word favoured by the Attic Orators: Isaeus 2.9, Isocrates 13.4, Demosthenes 27.15.Matched in noteshighshort