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Headword:
*)arxei=a
Adler number: alpha,4089
Translated headword: archives
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning the place] where the public papers are deposited, a paper-preserve; or the places of the judges; alternatively [spelled]
a)rxai=a, as
Xenophon [does in book] 8 of
Histories.[1]
"He brought his sons into the speed-writing section of the ministry which dealt with archives."[2]
*)arxei=a: e)/nqa oi( dhmo/sioi xa/rtai a)po/keintai, xartofula/kia: h)\ ta\ xwri/a tw=n kritw=n: h)\ a)rxai=a, w(s *cenofw=n *(istoriw=n h#. tou\s de\ ui(e/as perih=gen e)s th\n e)s ta/xos gra/fousan moi=ran th=s peri\ ta\ a)rxei=a diakoni/as.
Notes:
[1] (Same material in other lexica.) Not the
Hellenica, as one might have supposed, but the
Cyropaedia (8.5.17 and 8.6.10 - note, though, that some editions print
a)rxei=a in both places).
[2] For "the speed-writing section" cf.
gamma 438, attributed to
Procopius.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 August 2001@06:31:51.
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