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Headword:
*diafruktou=n
Adler number: delta,837
Translated headword: to use a roasted [bean]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to vote, to cast lots. For they used to call the bean 'roasted'. Instead of pebbles the Athenians' jurors used to carry beans.
Greek Original:*diafruktou=n: diayhfi/zein, diaklhrou=n. to\n ga\r ku/amon e)ka/loun frukto/n. a)nti\ de\ yh/fwn kua/mous e)fo/roun oi( tw=n *)aqhnai/wn dikastai/.
Notes:
Again at
phi 756. The gloss embodies a misconception, however. Athenian jurors did vote with "pebbles"; originally literally so; by the C4 BCE, with metal ballots still referred to as pebbles (
yh=foi). The place of beans, however, was in the pre-C4 procedure of appointing officials by lot. See e.g.
Thucydides 8.69.4 (web address 1);
Xenophon,
Memorabilia 1.2.9 (web address 2); and generally Staveley (below) 61-2.
cf.
kappa 2575,
kappa 2577,
kappa 2578.
E.S. Staveley, Greek and Roman Voting and Elections (London 1972)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: constitution; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; law; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 November 2001@03:01:54.
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