Στρατεία ἐν τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις
campaign in the eponyms
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Translation
Aeschines in the [speech] On the malconducted embassy [sc. mentions this].1 Aristotle explains in Athenaion Politeia what a campaign in the eponyms was;2 "there are", he says, "ten eponymous heroes of the tribes and forty-two of the age-groups.3 Formerly the [sc. names of the] ephebes who were being enrolled were inscribed on whitened tablets, and above their names were written those of the archon in whose year they were enrolled and the eponymous hero who was in residence in the previous year.4 Now, however, they are inscribed before the boule."5 And a little later [he says] 6: "they use the eponymous heroes also for campaigns. When they send out an age-group they indicate who is to serve by writing the names of the eponymous archons7 of the youngest and oldest age-groups being called up."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στρατεία ἐν τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις· Αἰσχίνης ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας. Ἀριστοτέλης τοίνυν δεδήλωκεν ἐν Ἀθηναίων πολιτείᾳ, τὶς ἦν ἡ ἐν τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις στρατεία· εἰσὶ γάρ, φησίν, ἐπώνυμοι ιʹ μὲν αἱ τῶν φυλῶν, βʹ δὲ καὶ μʹ αἱ τῶν ἡλικιῶν. οἱ δὲ ἔφηβοι ἐγγραφόμενοι πρότερον μὲν εἰς λελευκασμένα γραμματεῖα ἐνεγράφοντο, καὶ ἐπεγράφοντο αὐτοῖς ὅ τε ἄρχων, ἐφ' οὗ ἐπεγράφησαν, καὶ ἐπώνυμος ὁ τῷ προτέρῳ ἐπιδεδημηκώς. νῦν δὲ εἰς τὴν βουλὴν ἀναγράφονται. καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· χρῶνται δὲ τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις καὶ πρὸς τὰς στρατείας, καὶ ὅταν ἡλικίαν ἐκπέμπωσιν, ὡς γράφουσιν, ἀπὸ τίνος ἄρχοντος ἐπωνύμου μέχρι τίνος δεῖ στρατεύεσθαι.
Betacode
*stratei/a e)n toi=s e)pwnu/mois: *ai)sxi/nhs e)n tw=| *peri\ th=s parapresbei/as. *)aristote/lhs toi/nun dedh/lwken e)n *)aqhnai/wn politei/a|, ti\s h)=n h( e)n toi=s e)pwnu/mois stratei/a: ei)si\ ga/r, fhsi/n, e)pw/numoi i# me\n ai( tw=n fulw=n, b# de\ kai\ m# ai( tw=n h(likiw=n. oi( de\ e)/fhboi e)ggrafo/menoi pro/teron me\n ei)s leleukasme/na grammatei=a e)negra/fonto, kai\ e)pegra/fonto au)toi=s o(/ te a)/rxwn, e)f' ou(= e)pegra/fhsan, kai\ e)pw/numos o( tw=| prote/rw| e)pidedhmhkw/s. nu=n de\ ei)s th\n boulh\n a)nagra/fontai. kai\ met' o)li/ga: xrw=ntai de\ toi=s e)pwnu/mois kai\ pro\s ta\s stratei/as, kai\ o(/tan h(liki/an e)kpe/mpwsin, w(s gra/fousin, a)po\ ti/nos a)/rxontos e)pwnu/mou me/xri ti/nos dei= strateu/esqai.
Notes (7)
- From Harpokration s.v.
- 1Aeschin. 2.168. ↩
- 2Ath.Pol. 53.4. ↩
- 3In other words, citizen males were eligible for military service for forty-two years, from the ages of eighteen to fifty-nine. ↩
- 4"In residence" makes no sense. The transmitted text here has garbled Harpokration (and the Ath.Pol.), substituting
e)pidedhmhkw/s for what should bee)/tei dediaithkw/s - "the eponym of the year-class which had provided the arbitrators of the previous year". See therefore Ath.Pol. 53.4: a year's youngest age-group was identified by the eponymous hero of the previous year's senior age-group. ↩ - 5Ath.Pol. 53.4 is clearer: the names are inscribed on a bronze stele which is set up in front of the bouleuterion. ↩
- 6Ath.Pol. 53.7. ↩
- 7Ath.Pol. 53.7 explains that the age-groups were identified by both archon and eponymous hero. ↩
References
P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 592-3, 596
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