Θέσθαι

to place

Translated by David Whitehead27 Nov 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

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Hyperides [uses this] in the sense of to take a pledge¹, but Demosthenes in the [speech] On the Tax-Exemptions in the sense of to approve and ratify a law². However, in the [speech] Against Stephanos he says "having had placed laws private to himself", instead of "having placed".³

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Θέσθαι· ἀντὶ μὲν τοῦ ὑποθήκην λαβεῖν Ὑπερίδης, ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ προέσθαι καὶ κυρῶσαι μόνον Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν ἀτελειῶν. ἐν μέντοι τῷ κατὰ Στεφάνου φησίν· ἑαυτῷ νόμους ἰδίως θέμενον. ἀντὶ τοῦ θέντα.

Betacode

*qe/sqai: a)nti\ me\n tou= u(poqh/khn labei=n *(uperi/dhs, a)nti\ de\ tou= proe/sqai kai\ kurw=sai mo/non *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| peri\ tw=n a)teleiw=n. e)n me/ntoi tw=| kata\ *stefa/nou fhsi/n: e(autw=| no/mous i)di/ws qe/menon. a)nti\ tou= qe/nta.

Notes (3)

From Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
1Hyperides fr. 169 Jensen. ↩
2Demosthenes 20.55. (With law(s) as the subject there, the textual error in the present passage -- but not already in Harpok. -- is clear: read no/mon, "a law", for mo/non, "only".) ↩
3Demosthenes 46.23. ↩

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θ293ΘέτηςplacerPerhaps they term a placer the man who has deposited a pledge, not, as Didymos [says], the man adopting a child. For "placed" is what they used to call adoptive sons.

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θ262Θέσειςfilings, positions, theses θ263Θέσιςthesis, position, settling, convention θ264Θέσθαιto place θ265Θέσμιονstatutory θ266Θεσμοθέτηςthesmothetes, statute-giver

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