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Headword:
Sphêttoi
Adler number: sigma,1744
Translated headword: at Sphettos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sphettos [is] a
Demosthenes of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Akamantis.
Sphêttoi: Dêmosthenês tês Akamantidos ho Sphêttos.
Note:
For Sphettos see already
sigma 1743. The present headword, as transmitted, is its locative, but this is a corruption: the immediate source is Harpokration s.v.
*sfhtto/s (sic), a gloss on the appearance of the deme name in
Isaeus fr. 17 Sauppe. And of course "
Demosthenes" -- not a member of this deme -- was never cited here: the word is simply "demos", accidentally expanded.
J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 48
D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v.
Keywords: constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@11:24:25.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 27 January 2005@00:11:09.
David Whitehead (modified translation and note; augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 27 January 2005@03:02:36.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 14 July 2011@09:13:15.
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