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Headword:
*prattome/nous
Adler number: pi,2232
Translated headword: exacting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning them] demanding.[1]
Isocrates [writes]: "and exacting only a small [sc. fee] from their pupils".[2]
"Exacting [money] from the masters of the vessels, but giving nobody a feeling of a tax."[3]
*prattome/nous: a)paitoume/nous. *)isokra/ths: kai\ tou\s maqhta\s mikro\n prattome/nous. pratto/menos de\ tou\s tw=n ploi/wn kuri/ous, te/lous de\ ou)deni\ ai)/sqhsin parexo/menos.
Notes:
The headword, masculine accusative plural of this present middle participle, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Same glossing in
Photius (pi1144 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; cf.
pi 2210,
pi 2229.
[2]
Isocrates 13.7
Against the Sophists (web address 1).
[3] Quotation not identified by Adler, but it is
Procopius,
Secret History 25.3 (web address 2), on Justinian; cf. Kaldellis (109-110); see on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.XCIV. Justinian instructed customs inspectors at the Hellespont and Bosporus straits to demand onerous fees from passing merchant vessels; cf.
alpha 1822 and
pi 2075.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 August 2012@09:13:50.
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