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Headword:
*)/emporos
Adler number: epsilon,1046
Translated headword: emporos, merchant-shipper, trader
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] he who sails for a fare on someone else's ship,[1] or a businessman.
Greek Original:*)/emporos: o( nau/lou ple/wn e)p' a)llotri/as new/s, h)\ pragmateuth/s.
Notes:
For the headword see already
epsilon 1045 (and again
epsilon 1047). Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon; cf.
scholia on
Homer,
Odyssey 2.319, and
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 904 and 1179.
[1] This stipulation that the ship must not be his own (accepted by modern scholars such as Johannes Hasebroek,
Trade and Politics in Ancient Greece (English tr: New York 1965) 3) is thus held to differentiate the
e)/mporos from the
nau/klhros (
nu 56) who does own and operate his own vessel(s).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 February 2007@05:11:33.
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