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Headword:
*)=isai
yh=foi
Adler number: iota,625
Translated headword: equal votes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[...] that he would perish, even if the votes are equal". An exaggerated statement. For whenever the votes [sc. of an Athenian jury] were equal, the defendant was acquitted.
Greek Original:*)=isai yh=foi: w(s a)po/loito, ka)\n i)=sai yh=foi ge/nwntai. u(perbolikw=s ei)/rhtai. o(/tan ga\r ai( yh=foi i)=sai ge/nwnto, a)pelu/eto o( kathgorou/menos.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Frogs 685 (web address 1), followed by comment from the
scholia there. Again at
omega 217 (q.v.), and for the phrase cf.
iota 623 and
iota 624.
Odd-numbered juries (201, 401, 501, etc.) were introduced in the fourth century to eliminate this very problem.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; law
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 October 2001@07:15:37.
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