Τελώνης
tax-collector, publican
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Dec 2012Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] divider of other people's affairs: "outspoken violence, unpunished theft, greed unashamed, business without reason, shameless commerce".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τελώνης· ἀλλοτρίων πραγμάτων μεριστής, πεπαρρησιασμένη βία, ἀνεπιτίμητος ἁρπαγή, ἀναίσχυντος πλεονεξία, πραγματεία λόγον μὴ ἔχουσα, ἀναιδὴς ἐμπορία.
Betacode
*telw/nhs: a)llotri/wn pragma/twn meristh/s, peparrhsiasme/nh bi/a, a)nepiti/mhtos a(rpagh/, a)nai/sxuntos pleoneci/a, pragmatei/a lo/gon mh\ e)/xousa, a)naidh\s e)mpori/a.
Notes (1)
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- 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…
- 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.
- 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
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth