Συνθῆκαι
agreements, pacts, contracts
Translated by David Whitehead6 Nov 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
The pledges which used to be managed by three [means]: [by] words, actions, hands. [Doing so by] words might mean [by] oaths, [by] actions might mean [by] sacrifices on altars, and [it would be done by] hands when the pledges were effected by handshakes. And Homer [says]: "and right hands, which we promised".1 And [there are] three complaints of transgression: [going against] altar, pledge, oath.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Συνθῆκαι· αἱ πίστεις αἳ διὰ τριῶν ἐτελοῦντο· λόγων, ἔργων, χειρῶν. λόγων μὲν οἷον δι' ὅρκων, ἔργων δὲ οἷον τῶν ἐν τοῖς βωμοῖς θυσιῶν, χειρῶν δὲ ἐπεὶ αἱ πίστεις διὰ χειρῶν ἐγίνοντο. καὶ Ὅμηρος· καὶ δεξιαί, ᾗς ἐπέπιθμεν. καὶ τρία ἐγκλήματα παραβασίας, βωμός, πίστις, ὅρκος.
Betacode
*sunqh=kai: ai( pi/steis ai(\ dia\ triw=n e)telou=nto: lo/gwn, e)/rgwn, xeirw=n. lo/gwn me\n oi(=on di' o(/rkwn, e)/rgwn de\ oi(=on tw=n e)n toi=s bwmoi=s qusiw=n, xeirw=n de\ e)pei\ ai( pi/steis dia\ xeirw=n e)gi/nonto. kai\ *(/omhros: kai\ deciai/, h(=|s e)pe/piqmen. kai\ tri/a e)gklh/mata parabasi/as, bwmo/s, pi/stis, o(/rkos.
Notes (1)
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 308, where altar-pledge-oath sequence at the end of the entry occurs (web address 1). See also sigma 1588 and sigma 1589.
- 1Homer, Iliad 2.341 (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- σ1586Συνθεσίαcovenant, treaty[Meaning] agreement, security. In the Fables: "with them they pledged a covenant."
- σ1588Συνθήκηpact, contract[Meaning] agreement. Xenophon [writes]: "the Greeks with Cyrus went up to meet the Persians and made pacts, after slaughtering a bull and a wolf and a boar and a ram; the Greeks dipped a sword into a shield, and the…
- σ1589Συνθήκηcompact, treaty[Meaning] agreement. "[...] so as [either] to confirm [the] peace, [...,] or to prepare the necessities for war by agreement [...]."
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Revision history3 revisions · last 23 Aug 2011
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked translation — David Whitehead
- added links, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead