Ταβελλίων
notary
Translated by Paul McKechnie18 Feb 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ταβελλίων· ὁ τὰ τῆς πόλεως γράφων συμβόλαια, ὁ παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς νομικὸς λεγόμενος. ἅπαντα ἐπιτελῶν τὰ τῶν πολιτῶν γραμματεῖα, ἕκαστον αὐτῶν οἰκείοις ἐπισφραγίζων γράμμασι.
Betacode
*tabelli/wn: o( ta\ th=s po/lews gra/fwn sumbo/laia, o( para\ toi=s polloi=s nomiko\s lego/menos. a(/panta e)pitelw=n ta\ tw=n politw=n grammatei=a, e(/kaston au)tw=n oi)kei/ois e)pisfragi/zwn gra/mmasi.
Notes (2)
- The headword tabellio is a Latin word for a notary or drafter of legal documents: see OLD s.v. tabellio, quoting Ulpian, Digest 48.19.9.4. Synonymous is tabellanio (Edict of Diocletian 7.41; cf. Souter s.v.).
- 1This word for lawyer (nomikos) is used in the New Testament, at Matthew 22:35 and elsewhere, as a general word for the (Jewish) lawyers who questioned Jesus. Its New Testament use would mean that the word was familiar in the compiler's Byzantine times, which I take to be the implicit background to 'called popularly'. ↩
- 2Procopius, Secret History 28.6; see in context at pi 2303. Though the final phrase here might mean 'with his own letters', I take it to refer to use of a seal to make an impression; if this is correct, grammasi would refer to the seal design, not to letters of the alphabet. ↩
References
Alexander Souter, Glossary of Later Latin to 600 AD (Oxford, 1949)
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