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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
κ1206Καὶ σφάκελοι ποιοῦσιν ἀτέλειανeven pains bring tax-exemption… 1711, and Zenobius 4.76. The story first appears in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 16.6; see also Diodorus Siculus 9.37.2-3.Matched in noteshighshort
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 …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
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
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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, …Matched in noteshighshort
α4438Αὐλητοῦ βίον ζῇςyou are living a piper's life… musical hanger-on of the Athenian eponymous archon each year (Aristotle(?), Athenaion Politeia 62.2 [web address 1]); and if the gloss on the proverb is correct -- a crucial proviso -- others without such guaranteed …Matched in noteshighshort
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
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
ε2611Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… for proedroi). [1] For the material so far cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.1-2. (It then goes badly astray.)Matched in noteshighmedium
γ352Γνώσῃ δὲ τοὺς τούτου τε κἀμοῦ μαθητάς τούτου μὲν Φορμίσιος Μεγαίνετός θ' ὁ Μάνηςyou will recognize his pupils and mine -- his are Phormisios and Megainetos the Manes… prominent anti-democracy figures of the day (Phormisios, Kleitophon, Theramenes: ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 34.3), there seem good grounds for thinking that all four were. cf. mu 394, mu 395, phi 605, phi 606.Matched in noteshighshort
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
λ812Λυκόποδεςwolf-feet, white-feet… needed ("take"). [2] The mss read (nonsensically) "Peisistratoi". [3] ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 19.2; cf. epsilon 2440.Matched in noteshighmedium
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
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
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
ε2843ἘπώνυμοιEponyms… Photius' version by supplying the figure that (according to ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 21.6) was the size of this preliminary list as a whole.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2744Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… king was called kurbasi/a (kappa 2741, kappa 2742). [6] ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.1 (web address 1). [7] This stoa, erected in the last quarter of the 6th century BCE, stood in the northeast corner …Matched in noteshighmedium
ει132Εἵλωςhelot… denoting ethnicity or nationality, usually membership of a polis, e.g. Athenaios = citizen of Athens. [3] In fact, even if this statement were true, they would not be descendants of captives in war in …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2238Ἐπιβολήthought, principle, impost, penalty, fine… to exact epibolai (summary fines) without reference to a court (Athenaion Politeia 56.7; cf. Lysias 30.3)'.Matched in noteshighmedium
α3546Ἀπόστασιςdistance… [now 37 Carey OCT], Hyperides fr. 99 Jensen) and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 58.3. [4] See alpha 3703.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… superseded by the even more complicated one described in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 63-65. (For the best modern commentary on it, see D.M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (1978) 36-38.) In the play, Aristophanes …Matched in noteshighmedium
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
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… language, with reference to magistrates: cf. Aristotle, Politics 1322a12; idem, Athenaion Politeia 4.2 strathgoi\ e(/noi; IG 12.324.26 *(ellhnotami/ai e(/noi; Demosthenes 25.20; epsilon 1197 ai( e(/nai a)rxai/. See also the common phrase e)/nh te kai\ …Matched in noteshighmedium