Σκαφηφόροι
bowl-carriers
Translated by David Whitehead19 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Agesikles says: "instead of [being] bowl-carriers they will climb up onto the acropolis as ephebes, grateful for their citizenship not to you but to [this man and] his money".1 For it was these men2 who used to carry bowls at Athens.. At any rate Demetrius in [book] 3 of Lawgiving asserts that that the law used to instruct the metics themselves to carry bowls in the processions, and their daughters [to carry] pitchers and sunshades.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκαφηφόροι· Δείναρχος ἐν τῷ κατὰ Ἀγησικλέους φησίν· οἱ ἀντὶ σκαφηφόρων ἔφηβοι εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἀναβήσονται, οὐχ ὑμῖν ἔχοντες χάριν τῆς πολιτείας, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἀργυρίῳ. οὗτοι γὰρ ἐσκαφηφόρουν Ἀθήνησι. Δημήτριος γοῦν ἐν γʹ Νομοθεσίας φησίν, ὅτι προσέταττεν ὁ νόμος τοῖς μετοίκοις ἐν ταῖς πομπαῖς αὐτοὺς μὲν σκάφας φέρειν, τὰς δὲ θυγατέρας αὐτῶν ὑδρεῖα καὶ σκιάδεια.
Betacode
*skafhfo/roi: *dei/narxos e)n tw=| kata\ *)aghsikle/ous fhsi/n: oi( a)nti\ skafhfo/rwn e)/fhboi ei)s th\n a)kro/polin a)nabh/sontai, ou)x u(mi=n e)/xontes xa/rin th=s politei/as, a)lla\ tw=| a)rguri/w|. ou(=toi ga\r e)skafhfo/roun *)aqh/nhsi. *dhmh/trios gou=n e)n g# *nomoqesi/as fhsi/n, o(/ti prose/tatten o( no/mos toi=s metoi/kois e)n tai=s pompai=s au)tou\s me\n ska/fas fe/rein, ta\s de\ qugate/ras au)tw=n u(drei=a kai\ skia/deia.
Notes (3)
References
D. Whitehead, The Ideology of the Athenian Metic (Cambridge 1977) 87-88
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