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Headword: *(ekteu/s
Adler number: epsilon,644
Translated headword: hekteus, sextary, sixth
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
It is a measure, which they say is the same as the choinix.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "so do you know that you have lost a sixth of wheat?". That is, three obols' worth.[2]
Greek Original:
*(ekteu/s: me/tron e)sti/n, o(\ tauto\n ei)=nai le/gousi th=| xoi/niki. *)aristofa/nhs: oi)=sq' ou)=n a)polwlekui=a purw=n e(kte/a; toute/sti triw/bolon.
Notes:
[1] Not so: there were eight choinikes to the hekteus; cf. under mu 403.
[2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 547, with scholion.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 April 2006@07:44:32.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 26 April 2006@11:00:27.
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