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Headword:
*xrush=
ei)kw/n
Adler number: chi,560
Translated headword: golden image
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The archons at
Athens[1] used to swear to dedicate a golden image of themselves in the city, [sc. and] at Pytho,[2] [sc. and] at
Olympia, to deter them from transgressing against[3] those over whom they were ruling.
*xrush= ei)kw/n: w)/mnuon oi( *)aqh/nhsin a)/rxontes, a)\n mh\ pare/lqwsin e)f' oi(=s a)/rxousi, xrush=n ei)ko/na au)tw=n a)naqh/sein e)n a)/stei, e)n *puqoi=, e)n *)olumpi/a|.
Notes:
For this oath see e.g. (with varying detail)
Plato,
Phaedrus 235D-E; ?
Aristotle,
Athenaion Politeia 7.1 and 55.5;
Plutarch,
Solon 25.3.
[1] i.e. the nine chief "magistrates" (office-holders) each year.
[2]
Delphi.
[3] The text of this clause, transmitted with the negative
mh/, seems to be faulty
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 April 2008@00:14:53.
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