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Headword:
*)aphliasth/s
Adler number: alpha,3154
Translated headword: lawcourt-shunner, non-juror
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] lawsuit-hater. [sc. The term occurs] in
Aristophanes.
*)aphliasth/s: miso/dikos. para\ *)aristofa/nei.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 110 (in the dual: web address 1), with scholion.
The
heliaia was a public hall at
Athens where an ancient lawcourt was held. See generally
eta 217,
eta 218,
eta 219.
Aristophanes is perhaps also playing on
heliaia and
helios, suggesting a second meaning "not fond of basking in the sun."
References:
M.H. Hansen, "The Athenian Heliaia from Solon to Aristotle," Classica et Mediaevalia 33 (1982) 9-47 (reprinted with addenda in his The Athenian Ecclesia II (Copenhagen 1989) 219-261)
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995) 168-9
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; law
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 July 2000@02:26:34.
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