Τελώνης
tax-collector, publican
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Dec 2012Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
The 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.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τελώνης· διεβέβλητο παρὰ τοῖς παλαιοῖς τὸ τοῦ τελώνου ὄνομα· καὶ τοῦ Κλέωνος ὄντος τελώνου καὶ ὑπὲρ τὸ τέλος τελωνοῦντος· ὥς φησιν Ἀριστοφάνης.
Betacode
*telw/nhs: diebe/blhto para\ toi=s palaioi=s to\ tou= telw/nou o)/noma: kai\ tou= *kle/wnos o)/ntos telw/nou kai\ u(pe\r to\ te/los telwnou=ntos: w(/s fhsin *)aristofa/nhs.
Notes
- From a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 248, where the headword occurs in the accusative case (web address 1).
For Kleon see kappa 1731. Fortelw/nhs , see also tau 287, tau 288, tau 290.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- τ287Τελώνηςtax-collector, publican[Meaning] advance-payment. 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,…
- 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…
- τ290Τελώνηςtax-collector, publican[Meaning a] divider of other people's affairs: "outspoken violence, unpunished theft, greed unashamed, business without reason, shameless commerce".
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Revision history2 revisions · last 8 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another x-ref; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth