Θῆττα
poor girl
Translated by Constantina Katsari18 May 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] an heiress, who does not have a dowry because her father left her in poverty, but is being dowered by her relatives in accordance with the law [to the extent of] 500 drachmas.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θῆττα· ἐπίκληρος, οὐκ ἔχουσα φερνήν, πενιχρὰ καταλειφθεῖσα ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν ἀγχιστέων προικιζομένη κατὰ νόμον πεντακοσίων δραχμῶν.
Betacode
*qh=tta: e)pi/klhros, ou)k e)/xousa fernh/n, penixra\ kataleifqei=sa u(po\ tou= patro/s, u(po\ de\ tw=n a)gxiste/wn proikizome/nh kata\ no/mon pentakosi/wn draxmw=n.
Notes
- The headword (a single word in the Greek), here nominative singular, is in Attic dialect (with tt). For its counterpart
qh=ssa see already theta 365, and generally LSJ underqh/s . The entry itself has rememblances to ones in other lexica, e.g. Photius theta172 Theodoridis., but this is more specific.
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"The daughter of a man in the thetic class who survived him and would thus have been an [heiress] if there had been any estate to inherit was known as aqh=ssa and was the subject of special provisions which are set out in full in Demosthenes, Makartatos [Demosth. 43.54]. Her nearest male kinsman was required either to marry her himself or to dower her; the dowry was fixed by the census class to which the man belonged, 500 drachmai if he was a pentakosiomedimnos, 300 if he was a knight, 150 if he was a zeugite" (A.R.W. Harrison, The Law of Athens, i (Oxford 1969) 135-6).
Linked from2 entries
- θ358Θήςbondsman, serf[Genitive] qhto/s: [meaning] hireling.
- θ365Θητεὺς καὶ Θητικόνthetes and thetic censusWith the citizen-body in Athens divided into four, the poorest were called thetes, and [were said] to have a thetic census. These men shared in no office and did not serve in the army. And "thete-ess" is the name the…
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Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Dec 2018
- modified cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- more keywords — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Constantina Katsari