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Habitually both laymen and rhetoricians make use of the name of chremata in application to coins of silver and gold, and they also assigned this expression to the whole property. "[...] that the killer is taint-free and dies and his chremata are sold."[1] The expression is also applied to a concrete reality [or: something implying some business] or to a person [or: character] or to a speech, as Antiphon [does];[2] and they also assign the expression to mercantile wares. Lysias applies [it] to the furnishing of gold.[3]

*xrhma/twn: sunh/qws me\n oi(/ te i)diw=tai kai\ oi( r(h/tores tw=| o)no/mati tw=n xrhma/twn e)pi\ nomi/smati xrw=ntai a)rguri/ou kai\ xrusi/ou kai\ e)pi\ th=s o(/lhs ou)si/as th\n le/cin tau/thn e)/tacan: to\n a)poktei/nanta o(/sion ei)=nai kai\ qnh/skein kai\ ta\ xrh/mata au)tou= pepra=sqai. kei=tai de\ h( le/cis kai\ e)pi\ pra/gmatos h)\ prosw/pou h)\ lo/gou, w(s *)antifw=n: ta/ssousi de\ th\n le/cin kai\ e)pi\ tw=n e)mporikw=n forti/wn. o( de\ *lusi/as e)pi\ tou= xrusou= kataskeua/smatos ti/qhsi.

The headword, a neuter plural, is here in the genitive case, as in the opening sentence of the gloss; cf. chi 489.
[1] Tentatively attributed by Adler to Aelian. Perhaps, rather, a faulty echo of part of a law quoted in Andocides 1.95: to\n a)poktei/nanta o(/sion ei)=nai kai\ ta\ xrh/mata e)/xein tou= a)poqano/ntos 'that the killer is taint-free and has the monies of the deceased'.
[2] Antiphon fr. 187 Sauppe [= Antiphon the Sophist fr. 117 DK].
[3] Lysias fr. 335 Sauppe, now 513 Carey OCT.

Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 2 June 2003@17:41:24.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 3 June 2003@03:55:44.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr and notes; more keywords) on 13 November 2013@06:16:04.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 29 June 2023@15:26:09.

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