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Headword: *)/isai yh=foi
Adler number: iota,623
Translated headword: equal votes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are narrowly convicted in the jurycourts [sc. of classical Athens]. For if the votes are equal, defendants are relieved from trials in which the man against whom the complaint has been brought is acquitted.
Greek Original:
*)/isai yh=foi: e)pi\ tw=n par' o)li/gon e)n toi=s dikasthri/ois a(liskome/nwn. a)nalu/ontai ga\r oi( diwko/menoi a)po\ tw=n dikazome/nwn, a)\n i)=sai ge/nwntai yh=foi, e)n ai(=s a)polu/etai o( e)gkalou/menos.
Notes:
Likewise in Photius (Lexicon iota198), and cf. also Hesychius iota906 (stemming from Aeschines 3.252). Appendix Proverbiorum 3.42.
For the headword phrase see also iota 624 and (with clearer comment) iota 625.
Keywords: daily life; law; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 April 2006@07:24:03.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (typo, status) on 20 April 2006@19:37:34.
David Whitehead (typo) on 21 April 2006@05:55:54.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2013@06:08:30.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2013@06:09:57.
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