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ε653Ἐκ τιμημάτωνfrom income-ratings4 income-ratings were created at Athens by Solon: Pentakosiomedimnoi ['Five-Hundred-Bushel Men'], Hippeis, Zeugitai, Thetes.Matched in translationhighshort
ε1293Ἔνη καὶ νέαold and new… elsewhere. The adoption of the backwards calendar is numbered among Solon’s reforms by Plutarch, Solon 25. [5] The sense of this complex explanation rests on two particular features of the Athenian calendar, which was …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2471ἘπιμενίδηςEpimenides… in prose, certain mystery-writings and spells and other riddling works. Solon the lawgiver wrote against him criticizing the purification of the city. This man lived for 150 years, but for 90 [of them] he …

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Ἐκ τιμημάτων

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4 income-ratings were created at Athens by Solon: Pentakosiomedimnoi ['Five-Hundred-Bushel Men'], Hippeis, Zeugitai, Thetes.

Ἐκ τιμημάτων· δʹ Ἀθήνησι τιμήματα ὑπὸ Σόλωνος γέγονε, Πεντακοσιομεδίμνων, Ἱππέων, Ζευγιτῶν, Θητῶν.

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ε773Ἐλεγεῖονelegaic, elegiac… here, the accusative case.) For this equivalence see e.g. Plutarch, Solon 8.2.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2639Ἐπιστρεφέωςintently… epsilon 2642) occurs at 1.30.3 -- Croesus asks e)pistrefe/ws why Solon considers Tellos (tau 284) so fortunate -- and LSJ's 'earnestly, vehemently' conveys the sense of it there. The Suda's 'deceitfully' repeats one version …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3729ΕὐρύσακεςBroadshield, Eurysakes, Eurysaces… the vocative, from the quotation which follows. See also Plutarch, Solon 10 (and epsilon 3730). [1] Similarly already in Hesychius. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 574-6 (web address 1); cf. pi 2089.Matched in noteshighshort