Τελώνης
tax-collector, publican
Translated by Catharine Roth9 Dec 2012Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] advance-payment.1
Iamblichus [writes]: "the tax-collector gave the necklace to the merchant. Will not already wolves set down lambs out of their mouths and lions release from their teeth fawns to their mothers, when even a tax-collector has given up such a prize?"2
Iamblichus [writes]: "the tax-collector gave the necklace to the merchant. Will not already wolves set down lambs out of their mouths and lions release from their teeth fawns to their mothers, when even a tax-collector has given up such a prize?"2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τελώνης. προτέλεια. Ἰάμβλιχος· ἔδωκε τὸν ὅρμον ὁ τελώνης τῷ ἐμπόρῳ. οὐκ ἤδη καὶ λύκοι θήσουσιν ἄρνας ἐκ τῶν στομάτων καὶ λέοντες ἀπὸ τῶν ὀδόντων ἀπολύσουσι νεβροὺς ταῖς μητράσιν, ὁπότε καὶ τελώνης ἀφῆκεν ἄγραν τηλικαύτην;
Betacode
*telw/nhs. prote/leia. *)ia/mblixos: e)/dwke to\n o(/rmon o( telw/nhs tw=| e)mpo/rw|. ou)k h)/dh kai\ lu/koi qh/sousin a)/rnas e)k tw=n stoma/twn kai\ le/ontes a)po\ tw=n o)do/ntwn a)polu/sousi nebrou\s tai=s mhtra/sin, o(po/te kai\ telw/nhs a)fh=ken a)/gran thlikau/thn;
Notes (2)
- For this headword see also tau 288, tau 289, tau 290, and cf. tau 291, tau 292.
- 1Oddly, not a suitable gloss for the headword, but, as indicated, a (broadly) related abstract noun: see pi 2865, pi 2866, pi 2867. (Adler notes that it is lacking in mss GM, and suggests that it has strayed in from the end of tau 281.) ↩
- 2Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 93 Habrich. ↩
Linked from5 entries
- π2865Προτέλειαpreliminary-sacrificesThus they name the day on which parents lead the [about-to-be] wedded virgin onto the [sc. Athenian] acropolis to the goddess's [temple] and make offerings.
- τ288Τελώνηςpublican, tax-collector[Meaning] an examiner of taxes. "But Solon disdained Croesus' present fortune and bade him to await the end of his whole life, and neither to leap ahead nor to be hasty to enroll himself among the prosperous: for [he…
- τ289Τελώνηςtax-collector, publicanThe name of "tax-collector" was reviled among the ancients; and [the name] of Kleon, because he was a tax-collector and collected taxes beyond what was due, as Aristophanes says.
- τ290Τελώνηςtax-collector, publican[Meaning a] divider of other people's affairs: "outspoken violence, unpunished theft, greed unashamed, business without reason, shameless commerce".
- τ291Τελωνεῖονtax-booth, tax-office[Accentuated] with a circumflex on the penultimate syllable, [and meaning the place] where the tax-collector sits.
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Revision history2 revisions · last 8 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth