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Headword: *)epista/ths
Adler number: epsilon,2612
Translated headword: chairman
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
There were two at Athens, of which the one was chosen by lot from prytaneis, the other from the proedroi. And in everyday usage [a chairman] was the word for someone set in charge of something or other.
Greek Original:
*)epista/ths: du/o h)=san *)aqh/nhsin, w(=n o( me\n e)k prutane/wn e)klhrou=to, o( de\ e)k tw=n proe/drwn. e)le/geto de\ kai\ o( e)n toi=s koinoi=s e)festhkw\s pra/gmati w(|tiniou=n.
Notes:
An abridgement of Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on the headword's appearance in Isaeus fr. 42 Sauppe and citing other material (Aeschines 3.14 & 29, ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.2-3; Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 12).
See also epsilon 2610, epsilon 2611, epsilon 2613, epsilon 2614, epsilon 2615; and cf. epsilon 2616, epsilon 2617.
Keywords: constitution; definition; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 November 2000@03:53:48.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 5 July 2003@17:31:41.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 5 July 2003@17:32:12.
David Whitehead (augmented main note; added x-refs and keyword) on 6 July 2003@05:46:35.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 9 October 2005@10:23:06.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 7 July 2011@10:23:22.
David Whitehead on 31 January 2016@08:27:10.
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