Τενέδιος ξυνήγορος
Tenedian advocate
Translated by David Whitehead16 Dec 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Meaning a harsh one;1 for Tenedians honor two axes2 in their dedications. However, Aristotle [says] that a Tenedian king used to try lawsuits with an axe, so that he could execute wrongdoers on the spot.3 Or because [there is] a place in Tenedos called Asserina, where [there] is a small river in which crabs have very upright shells resembling an axe. Or because a certain king laid down a law that adulterers should both be beheaded,4 and he observed this in the case of his son. According to which [there is] also, on the currency, an axe on one side and two faces coming out of a single neck on the other.5 But others [say] that because of what Tennes suffered at the hands of his stepmother, he used to judge homicide suits with an axe.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τενέδιος ξυνήγορος· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπότομος· δύο γὰρ πελέκεις ἐν ἀναθήμασι τιμῶσι Τενέδιοι. καὶ παροιμία· Τενέδιος πέλεκυς. Ἀριστοτέλης μέντοι, ὅτι βασιλεὺς Τενέδιος μετὰ πελέκεως δικάζων τὸν ἀδικοῦντα εὐθέως ἀνῄρει. ἢ ὅτι Ἀσσερίνα τόπος ἐν Τενέδῳ, ἔνθα ποταμίσκος, ἐν ᾧ καρκίνοι τὰ χελώνια διηρθρωμένα ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἔχοντες καὶ πελέκει ἐμφερῆ. ἢ ὅτι βασιλεύς τις νόμον θεὶς πελέκει τοὺς μοιχοὺς ἄμφω καρατομεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ ἐτήρησε τοῦτο. καθ' ὃ καὶ ἐν τῷ νομίσματι, ἐφ' οὗ μὲν πέλεκυς, ἐφ' οὗ δὲ δύο πρόσωπα ἐξ ἑνὸς αὐχένος. οἱ δ', ὅτι Τέννης δι' ἃ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ τῆς μητρυιᾶς, μετὰ πελέκεως τὰς φοινικὰς ἔκρινε δίκας.
Betacode
*tene/dios cunh/goros: a)nti\ tou= a)po/tomos: du/o ga\r pele/keis e)n a)naqh/masi timw=si *tene/dioi. kai\ paroimi/a: *tene/dios pe/lekus. *)aristote/lhs me/ntoi, o(/ti basileu\s *tene/dios meta\ pele/kews dika/zwn to\n a)dikou=nta eu)qe/ws a)nh/|rei. h)\ o(/ti *)asseri/na to/pos e)n *tene/dw|, e)/nqa potami/skos, e)n w(=| karki/noi ta\ xelw/nia dihrqrwme/na e)pi\ plei=on e)/xontes kai\ pele/kei e)mferh=. h)\ o(/ti basileu/s tis no/mon qei\s pele/kei tou\s moixou\s a)/mfw karatomei=n kai\ e)pi\ tou= ui(ou= e)th/rhse tou=to. kaq' o(\ kai\ e)n tw=| nomi/smati, e)f' ou(= me\n pe/lekus, e)f' ou(= de\ du/o pro/swpa e)c e(no\s au)xe/nos. oi( d', o(/ti *te/nnhs di' a(\ e)/paqen u(po\ th=s mhtruia=s, meta\ pele/kews ta\s foinika\s e)/krine di/kas.
Notes (5)
- See already tau 309, tau 310.
- 1Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Tenedos. ↩
- 2More precisely the double-headed axe, as is presupposed throughout this material. ↩
- 3Aristotle fr. 593 Rose (from the lost Constitution of the Tenedians). ↩
- 4This 'both' presumably means both parties to the crime; alternatively, beheading with both blades of the axe. ↩
- 5For the coinage of Tenedos with the axe and the Janiform head see B.V. Head, Historia Numorum (Oxford 1911, reprinted Amsterdam 1991) 550-1. For pictures see web address 1. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 corpus-nummorum.eu
Linked from2 entries
- τ309Τενέδιος ἄνθρωποςTenedian fellow[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those with frightening appearances; for when Tenes laid down laws in Tenedos he stipulated that a man with an axe should stand behind the judge and strike the man being…
- τ310Τενέδιος ἄνθρωποςTenedian fellow[The story goes that] Kyknos the son of Poseidon made a second marriage after the birth of his children Hemithea and Tennes[sic]; and Tennes was accused by his stepmother of trying to seduce her. She persuaded Kyknos to…
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